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Center Discussion Papers
Nos. 801-900


801. Schultz, T. Paul. "Health and Schooling Investment in Africa," February 1999. (42 pp.) [In Journal of Economic Perspectives, vol. 13, no. 3, 1999.]

802. Schultz, T. Paul. "Labor Market Reforms:  Issues, Evidence and Prospects," June 1999. (55 pp.) [In Anne O. Krueger, ed., Economic Policy Reform. Chicago:  University of Chicago Press, 2000.]

803. Schultz, T. Paul. "Women's Role in the Agricultural Household:  Bargaining and Human Capital," January 1999. (94 pp.) [In B. Gardner and G. Rausser, eds., Handbook of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 1.  Surry, England:  Elsevier Science, 2001.]

804. Schultz, T. Paul & Zeng Yi. "The Impact of Institutional Reform from 1979 to 1987 on Fertility in Rural China," June 1999. (45 pp.) [In China Economic Review, vol. 10, no. 2, 1999.]

805. Evenson, Robert E. & James W. McKinsey, Jr. "Technology -- Climate Interactions in the Green Revolution in India," August 1999. (28 pp.)

806. Srinivasan, T. N. & Jagdish Bhagwati. "Outward-Orientation and Development:  Are Revisionists Right?" September 1999. (44 pp.)

807. Del Boca, Daniela & Rocio Ribero. "Visitations and Transfers in Non Intact Households," October 1999. (36 pp.)

808. Ranis, Gustav & Frances Stewart. "Strategies for Success in Human Development," January 2000. (31 pp.) [In Journal of Human Development, vol. 1, no. 1, 2000.]

809. Timmins, Christopher. "Estimating the Amenity Costs of Global Warming in Brazil:  Getting the Most from Available Data," November 1999. (42 pp.)

810. Ribero, Rocio. "Earnings Effects of Household Investment in Colombia," November 1999. (35 pp.)

811. Streb, Jochen. "How to Win Schumpeterian Competition:  Technological Transfers in the German Plastics Industry from the 1930s to the 1970s," September 1999. (34 pp.)

812. Sharma, Kishor. "Liberalization and Structural Change:  Evidence from Nepalese Manufacturing," April 2000. (26 pp.)

813. Sharma, Kishor. "Pattern and Determinants of Intra-Industry Trade in Australian Manufacturing," December 1999. (21 pp.) [In Australian Economic Review, vol. 33, no. 3, September 2000.]

814. Evenson, Robert E., Ayal Kimhi, & Sanjaya DeSilva. "Supervision and Transaction Costs:  Evidence from Rice Farms in Bicol, the Philippines," April 2000. (42 pp.)

815. Duraisamy, P. "Changes in Returns to Education in India, 1983-94:  By Gender, Age-Cohort and Location," July 2000. (35 pp.)

816. Sharma, Kishor. "Export Growth in India:  Has FDI Played a Role?" July 2000. (21 pp.)

817. Conley, Timothy G. & Christopher R. Udry. "Learning About a New Technology:  Pineapple in Ghana," July 2000. (49 pp.)  [A revised version of this paper is available:  "Learning About a New Technology:  Pineapple in Ghana," May 24, 2004.]

818. Ribero, Rocio. "Family Structure, Fertility and Child Quality in Colombia," July 2000. (41 pp.)

819. DeSilva, Sanjaya. "Skills, Partnerships and Tenancy in Sri Lankan Rice Farms," October 2000. (62 pp.)

820. Corsetti, Giancarlo & Bartosz Mackowiak. "Nominal Debt and the Dynamics of Currency Crises," October 2000. (33 pp.)

821. Brown, John C. & Timothy W. Guinnane, "The Fertility Transition in Bavaria," April 2001. (51 pp.) [Revised version, "Fertility Transition in a Rural, Catholic Population: Bavaria, 1880-1910," in Population Studies, vol. 56, 2002.]

822. Corsetti, Giancarlo, Marcello Pericoli, & Massimo Sbracia, "Correlation Analysis of Financial Contagion: What One Should Know Before Running a Test," April 2001. (54 pp.)

823. Mckenzie, David J., "Consumption Growth in a Booming Economy: Taiwan 1976-96," May 2001. (56 pp.)

824. Guinnane, Timothy W., "A 'Friend and Advisor': Management, Auditors, and Confidence in Germany's Credit Cooperatives, 1889-1914," May 2001. (40 pp.) [In Business History Review, 77, Summer 2003.]

825. Habibi, Nadir, Cindy Huang, Diego Miranda, Victoria Murillo, Gustav Ranis, Mainak Sarkar, & Frances Stewart, "Decentralization in Argentina," May 2001. (57 pp.)

826. Ranis, Gustav & Frances Stewart, "Growth and Human Development: Comparative Latin American Experience," May 2001. (58 pp.)

827. Boozer, Michael A. & Tim Maloney, "The Effects of Class Size on the Long Run Growth in Reading Abilities and Early Adult Outcomes in the Christchurch Health and Development Study," May 2001. (68 pp.)

828. Burmeister, Larry, Gustav Ranis, & Michael Wang, "Group Behavior and Development: A Comparison of Farmers' Organisations in South Korea and Taiwan," May 2001. (41 pp.)

829. Guinnane, Timothy W. & Cormac Ó Gráda, "Mortality in the North Dublin Union During the Great Famine," May 2001. (26 pp.) [In Economic History Review, Vol. LV, No. 3, 2002.]

830. Srinivasan, T.N., "India's Reform of External Sector Policies and Future Multilateral Trade Negotiations," June 2001. (72 pp.)

831. Kanwar, Sunil & Robert Evenson, "Does Intellectual Property Protection Spur Technological Change?," June 2001. (35 pp.)

832. Boozer, Michael A. & Stephen E. Cacciola, "Inside the 'Black Box' of Project STAR: Estimation of Peer Effects Using Experimental Data," June 2001. (68 pp.)

833. Schultz, T. Paul, "The Fertility Transition: Economic Explanations," August 2001. (19 pp.) [In International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, N.J. Smelser and P.B. Baltes, Pergamon Press, Oxford, 2002.]

834. Schultz, T. Paul, "School Subsidies for the Poor: Evaluating the Mexican Progresa Poverty Program," August 2001. (72 pp.) [In Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 74, 2004.]

835. Guinnane, Timothy W., "Delegated Monitors, Large and Small: The Development of Germany's Banking System, 1800-1914," August 2001. (77 pp.) [In Journal of Economic Literature, vol. XL, March 2002.]

836. Schultz, T. Paul, "Why Governments Should Invest More to Educate Girls," September 2001. (46 pp.) [In World Development, Vol. 30, No. 2, 2002.]

837. Chuma, Hiroyuki, "Sources of Machine-Tool Industry Leadership in the 1990s: Overlooked Intrafirm Factors," October 2001. (28 pp.)

838. Guinnane, Timothy W., Carolyn Moehling, & Cormac Ó Gráda,  "Fertility in South Dublin a Century Ago: A First Look," November 2001. (43 pp.)

839. Engel, Eduardo, Ronald Fischer, & Alexander Galetovic, "How to Auction an Essential Facility When Underhand Integration is Possible," February 2002. (20 pp.) [In The Journal of Industrial Economics, Vol. LII, No. 3, 2004.]

840. Engel, Eduardo, Ronald Fischer, & Alexander Galetovic, "Highway Franchising and Real Estate Values," February 2002. (27 pp.) [In Journal of Urban Economics, 57, 2005.]

841. Schultz, T. Paul, "Wage Gains Associated with Height as a Form of Health Human Capital," February 2002. (12 pp.) [In The American Economic Review, Vol. 92, No. 2, May 2002.]

842. Srinivasan, T.N, "Developing Countries and the Multilateral Trading System After Doha," February 2002. (37 pp.)

843. Bender, Siegfried & Kui-Wai Li, "The Changing Trade and Revealed Comparative Advantages of Asian and Latin American Manufacture Exports," March 2002. (24 pp.)

844. Engel, Eduardo, Ronald Fischer, & Alexander Galetovic, "Competition In or For the Field: Which is Better?," March 2002. (16 pp.)

845. Contreras, Dante, "Vouchers, School Choice and the Access to Higher Education," June 2002. (37 pp.)

846. Mete, Cem & T. Paul Schultz, "Health and Labor Force Participation of the Elderly in Taiwan," June 2002. (49 pp.)

847. Fernandes, Ana, "Trade Policy, Trade Volumes and Plant-Level Productivity in Colombian Manufacturing Industries," July 2002. (72 pp.)

848. Guinnane, Timothy W., Carolyn M. Moehling, & Cormac Ó Gráda., "The Fertility of the Irish in America in 1910," October 2002. (44 pp.)

849. Aromolaran, Adebayo B., "Private Wage Returns to Schooling in Nigeria:  1996-1999," October 2002. (34 pp.)

850. Altonji, Joseph G. & Ulrich Doraszelski, "The Role of Permanent Income and Demographics in Black/White Differences in Wealth," December 2002. (44 pp.)

851. Li, Kui-Wai, "China's Capital and Productivity Measurement Using Financial Resources," February 2003. (20 pp.)

852. Levy, Philip I., "Non-Tariff Barriers as a Test of Political Economy Theories," February 2003.  (30 pp.)

853. Schultz, T. Paul, "Human Capital, Schooling and Health Returns," April 2003.  (26 pp.) [In Economics and Human Biology, Vol. 1, No. 2, June 2003.]

854. Klonner, Stefan, "Buying Fields and Marrying Daughters:   An Empirical Analysis of Rosca Auctions in a South Indian Village," April 2003. (44 pp.)
855. Schultz, T. Paul, "Human Resources in China:  The Birth Quota, Returns to Schooling, and Migration," April 2003. (35 pp.) [In Pacific Economic Review, Vol. 93, No. 3, 2004.]

856.  Udry, Christopher, "Child Labor," June 2003. (20 pp.)

857  Duflo, Esther & Christopher Udry, "Intrahousehold Resource Allocation in Côte D'Ivoire:  Social Norms, Separate Accounts and Consumption Choices," June 2003.  (51 pp.)

858  Bustos, Álvaro, Eduardo Engel, & Alexander Galetovic, "Could Higher Taxes Increase the Long-Run Demand for Capital?:   Theory and Evidence for Chile," July 2003.  (28 pp.) [In Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 73, No. 2, 2004.]

859.  Bayer, Patrick, Robert McMillan, & Kim Rueben, "What Drives Racial Segregation?   New Evidence Using Census Microdata," July 2003.  (33 pp.)

860.  Bayer, Patrick, Robert McMillan, & Kim Rueben, "An Equilibrium Model of Sorting in an Urban Housing Market:  The Causes and Consequences of Residential Segregation," July 2003.  (88 pp.)

861.  Bayer, Patrick & Christopher Timmins, "A Note on the Equilibrium Properties of Locational Sorting Models," July 2003.  (20 pp.)

862.  Bayer, Patrick & Christopher Timmins, "Estimating Equilibrium Models of Sorting Across Locations," July 2003.  (31 pp.)

863.  Bayer, Patrick & David E. Pozen, "The Effectiveness of Juvenile Correctional Facilities:  Public Versus Private Management," July 2003.   (43 pp.)

864.  Bayer, Patrick, Randi Pintoff, & David E. Pozen, "Building Criminal Capital Behind Bars:  Social Learning in Juvenile Corrections," July 2003. (54 pp.)

865.  Caballero, Ricardo J. & Eduardo M.R.A. Engel, "Adjustment is Much Slower Than You Think," July 2003.  (30 pp.)

866.  Engel, Eduardo, Ronald Fischer, & Alexander Galetovic, "Privatizing Highways in Latin America:  Is It Possible to Fix What Went Wrong?," July 2003.  (25 pp.) [In Economia, the journal of the Latin American and Caribbean Economics Association (LACEA), Vol. 4, No. 1, October 2003.]

867.  Sinha, Nistha, "Fertility, Child Work and Schooling Consequences of Family Planning Programs:  Evidence from an Experiment in Rural Bangladesh," July 2003.  (51 pp.)

868.  Schultz, T. Paul, "Wage Rentals for Reproducible Human Capital:  Evidence from Ghana and the Ivory Coast," September 2003.  (48 pp.) [In Economics and Human Biology, vol. 1, no. 3, December 2003.]

869.  Brown, John C. & Timothy W. Guinnane, "Two Statistical Problems in the Princeton Project on the European Fertility Transition," September 2003.  (35 pp.)

870.  Ranis, Gustav, "Is Dualism Worth Revisiting?" September 2003.  (19 pp.)

871.  Fairlie, Robert W. & Alicia Robb, "Families, Human Capital, and Small Business:  Evidence from the Characteristics of Business Owners Survey," October 2003.  (32 pp.)

872.  Bayer, Patrick, Fernando Ferreira, & Robert McMillan, "A Unified Framework for Measuring Preferences for Schools and Neighborhoods," November 2003.  (68 pp.)

873.  Fairlie, Robert W., "An Extension of the Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition Technique to Logit and Probit Models," November 2003.  (15 pp.)

874.  Boozer, Michael, Gustav Ranis, Francis Stewart, & Tavneet Suri, "Paths to Success:   The Relationship Between Human Development and Economic Growth," December 2003.  (48 pp.)

875.  Schultz, T. Paul, "Evidence of Returns to Schooling in Africa From Household Surveys:  Monitoring and Restructuring the Market for Education," December 2003.  (53 pp.) [In Journal of African Economics, Vol. 13, AERC Supplement 2, 2004.]

876.  Fardmanesh, Mohsen & Seymour Douglas, "Foreign Exchange Controls, Fiscal and Monetary Policy, and the Black Market Premium," December 2003.   (30 pp.)

877.  Dyer, Wendy Tanisha & Robert W. Fairlie, "Do Family Caps Reduce Out-of-Wedlock Births?  Evidence from Arkansas, Georgia, Indiana, New Jersey and Virginia," December 2003.  (41 pp.)

878.  Evenson, Robert E., "GMOs: Prospects for Increased Crop Productivity in Developing Countries," December 2003.  (21 pp.)

879.  Aromolaran, Adebayo B., "Female Schooling, Non-Market Productivity, and Labor Market Participation in Nigeria," January 2004.  (70 pp.)

880.  Guinnane, Timothy W., "Financial Vergangenheitsbewältigung:   The 1953 London Debt Agreement," Revised July 2015  (35 pp.)

881.  Chinn, Menzie D. & Robert W. Fairlie, "The Determinants of the Global Digital Divide:  A Cross-Country Analysis of Computer and Internet Penetration," March 2004.  (38 pp.)

882.  Lazarev, Valery, "Political Rents, Promotion Incentives and Support for a Non-Democratic Regime," March 2004.  (52 pp.)

883.  Caballero, Ricardo J. & Eduardo M.R.A. Engel, "Three Strikes and You're Out:   Reply to Cooper and Willis," March 2004.  (12 pp.)

884.  Caballero, Ricardo J., Eduardo M.R.A. Engel, & Alejandro Micco, "Microeconomic Flexibility in Latin America," March 2004.  (33 pp.)

885.  Bayer, Patrick, Robert McMillan, & Kim Rueben, "Residential Segregation in General Equilibrium," May 2004.  (45 pp.)

886.  Ranis, Gustav, "The Evolution of Development Thinking:  Theory and Policy," May 2004.  (38 pp.)

887.  Ranis, Gustav, "Human Development and Economic Growth," May 2004.  (13 pp.)

888.  Udry, Christopher R. & Timothy G. Conley, "Social Networks in Ghana," May 2004.  (34 pp.)

889.  Sinha, Nistha, "Testing for A Supply Constraint to Fertility:  Interpreting the Up to God Response to the Survey Question on Desired Family Size," July 2004.  (24 pp.)

890.  Aromolaran, Adebayo, "Intra-Household Redistribution of Income and Calorie Consumption in South-Western Nigeria," July 2004.  (49 pp.)

891.  Ranis, Gustav, "Arthur Lewis' Contribution to Development Thinking and Policy," August 2004.  (19 pp.)

892.  Kazianga, Harounan, "Schooling Returns for Wage Earners in Burkina Faso:  Evidence from the 1994 and 1998 National Surveys," August 2004.  (31 pp.)

893.  Caballero, Ricardo J., Kevin N. Cowan, Eduardo M.R.A. Engel, & Alejandro Micco, "Effective Labor Regulation and Microeconomic Flexibility," September 2004.  (32 pp.)

894.  Joshi, Shareen, "Female Household-Headship in Rural Bangladesh:  Incidence, Determinants and Impact on Children's Schooling," September 2004.  (48 pp.)

895.  Kazianga, Harounan, "Motives for Private Transfers in Burkina Faso," October 2004.  (54 pp.)

896.  Gregory, Paul R. & Valery Lazarev, "Structural Change in Russian Transition," October 2004.  (47 pp.)

897.  Akresh, Richard, "Adjusting Household Structure:   School Enrollment Impacts of Child Fostering in Burkina Faso," November 2004.  (37 pp.)

898.  Kazianga, Harounan & Christopher Udry, "Consumption Smoothing?   Livestock, Insurance and Drought in Rural Burkina Faso," November 2004.   (45 pp.)

899.  Gollin, Douglas, Stephen L. Parente, & Richard Rogerson, "The Food Problem and the Evolution of International Income Levels," December 2004.  (44 pp.)

900.  Ranis, Gustav, "Labor Surplus Economies," December 2004.  (21 pp.)