Instructor: Huw Lloyd-Ellis Office: Dunning
320 Telephone:
533-2276 E-mail: lloydell at qed dot
econ dot queensu dot ca Home page: http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/pub/faculty/lloyd-ellis/econ835 Lectures: Mondays at 10 am
and Wednesdays 8.30
am in Dunning MC E229. Office Hours: Please e-mail
me to set up an appointment.
Course Description:
ECON 835 focuses on topics central to the growth and economic
development of both developed and developing nations. The course
will conclude
with a "mini-conference"
in which you are expected to present and discuss recent papers in
development
economics and growth.
Evaluation:
There will be a term paper, 4 assignments and a
conference
presentation. The marks will be allocated according to the following
grading
scheme:
Participation...................................10%
Assignments...................................40%
Proposal........................................10%
Conference
Presentation.................10%
Term Paper....................................30%
Text: There is no required text for
this course. We will mostly be studying some of the journal articles
listed below. However we will make use of some readings from the
following texts: Development Economics by
Debraj Ray (Princeton
University Press, 1998) The Economics
of Rural Organization by
K.
Hoff, A. Braverman and J. Stiglitz (OUP,
1993) The
Economics of Microfinance by Beatriz A. de
Aghion and Jonathan Morduch (MIT Press,
2005). Economic
Growth by
David N. Weil (Pearson - Addison Wesley, 2005) The
Elusive
Quest for Growth by William Easterley (MIT Press, 2001) Economic Growth by Robert J.
Barro and Xavier Sala-i-Martin (2004: MIT Press, 2nd edition).
Recent Articles "On
the Theory of
Ethnic Conflict" by F. Caselli and W. Coleman (2006) CEP
Discussion Paper 732. "On
the Salience of Ethnic Conflict" by Esteban, Joan, and Debraj Ray (2008).American Economic Review,
98(5): 2185–2202.
“Wars and State
Capacity”by Besley, Timothy, and Torsten Persson (2008) forthcoming in
Journal of the European Economic Association.
“Political
foundations of the resource curse,” by Robinson, James, Ragnar Torvik,
Thierry Verdier (2006) Journal of
Development Economics,
Vol. 79, 447-468.
"Greed and Grievance in Civil War," by Collier, P. and A. Hoeffler
(2004),
Oxford Economic Papers 56, 563–95.
“Economic
Shocks and Civil Conflict: An Instrumental Variables Approach,” by
Miguel, Edward, Shanker Satyanath, Ernest Sergenti (2004) Journal
of Political Economy, 112(4): 725-753.
“Diamonds Are Forever, Wars
Are Not. Is Conflict Bad for Private Firms?" by Guidolin, M., and
Eliana la Ferrara (2007), American
Economic Review,
97(5): 1978-1993. "Addressing
the
Natural
Resource
Curse:
An
Illustration
from
Nigeria" by
Sala-i-Martin and Subramanian (2003), NBER Working Paper 9804 "Institutions
and
the
Resource
Curse" by Mehlem, Moene and Torvik (2006), Economic Journal, vol. 116, pp.
1-20. "Power
Struggles
and
the
Natural
Resource
Curse," F. Caselli (2006), MIT
Working Paper
Recent Articles "Aid,
Policies
and
Growth:
Revisiting
the
Evidence," by Burnside and
Dollar (2004), World Bank Policy Research Paper 3251. "Aid
and
Growth:
What
Does
the
Cross-Country
Evidence
Really
Show?"
Raghuram G. Rajan and Arvind Subramanian, Review of Economics and
Statistics, November 2008, Vol. 90, No. 4,
Pages 643-665
"Can Foreign Aid Buy Growth?", by William Easterly (2003): Journal of
Economic Perspectives, Summer Issue
"How much is a seat on the
Security Council worth? Foreign Aid and Bribery at the United Nations"
by Kuziemko, Ilyana and Eric Werker(2006): –
Journal of Political Economy,
Vol. 114(5)
"Why Conditional Aid Doesn’t Work and What Can Be Done
About It?" by Jakob Svensson, , Journal
of
Development
Economics, 2003,
vol. 70 (2):
381-402. "An
Aid-Institutions
Paradox?
A
Review
Essay
on
Aid
Dependency
and
State
Building
in
Sub-Saharan
Africa" Todd Moss, Gunilla
Pettersson, and Nicolas van de Walle (2008) in Reinventing Foreign
Aid, edited by William Easterly (MIT Press). "What
Undermines Aid’s Impact on Growth?" Raghuram G. Rajan and Arvind
Subramanian (2005) IMF Working paper # 05/126 "Aid, Growth, and
Development: Have We Come Full Circle?," Arndt, Channing; Jones,
Sam; and Tarp, Finn (2010) Journal of Globalization and Development:
Vol.
1
:
Iss.
2,
Article
5.
Background Papers
“More than 100 million women are missing,” by Sen, Amartya (1990) New York
Review of Books, Dec 23.
Recent Articles
“Hepatitis B and the case of the Missing Women,” by Oster, Emily
(2005), Journal of Political Economy, 113(6).
“Missing Women and the Price of Tea in China: The
Effect of Sex-Specific Income on Sex Imbalance,” by Qian, Nancy (2008) The Quarterly Journal
of Economics, 123(3).
“Sex-Selective Abortions
in India,” by Arnold, F., Kishor, S., and Roy, T.K. (2002) Population and
Development Review 28, 4: 759-785.
“Powerful Women: Does Exposure Reduce Prejudice?”
Lori Beaman, Raghabendra Chattopadhyay, Esther Duflo, Rohini Pande and
Petia Topalova (2008) Working Paper,
Kennedy School of Government.
"Missing
women:
age
and
disease”, by Siwan
Anderson and Debraj Ray (2010), Review
of
Economic
Studies, vol. 77,
pp. 1262–1300
Health
Background Papers
Recent Articles "AIDS
crisis and growth" by Paul Corrigan, Gerhard Glomm and Fabio Mendez
(2005), Journal of Development
Economics, vol. 77, pp. 107-124.
"Pharmaceuticals and the Developing World,"
by Kremer, Michael (2002): Journal
of Economic Perspectives, Fall Issue.
“Selection IV.B.3:
Confronting AIDS”, by Meier, Gerald M., and James E. Rauch. (2005). in Leading Issues
in Economic Development, Eight
Edition. Oxford University Press, pp. 231-239.
"Worms: Identifying Impacts of
Education and Health in the Presence of Treatment Externalities," by
Kremer, Michael and Edward Miguel (2004):
Econometrica, Vol. 72(1).
“Health and Democracy” by Timothy Besley and Masa Kudamatsu, American
Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 96(2), May 2006, pp.313-18.
“Has Democratization Reduced Infant Mortality in sub-Saharan Africa?
Evidence from Micro Data” (August 20, 2008), by Masa Kudamatsu. Working
Paper, IIES, Stockholm.
Education
Background Papers
“Education for Growth: Why
and For Whom?” Krueger, Alan and Mikael Lindahl. (2001). Journal of Economic Literature, 39
(4), 1101-1136.
Recent Articles
"Why does Education Lead to Lower Fertility? A Critical
Review of Some Possibilities" by Basu, A.M. 2002. World Development 30, 10: 1779-1790.
“Schooling and Labor Market Consequences of
School Construction in Indonesia: Evidence from an Unusual Policy
Experiment” by Duflo, Esther (2001): American
Economic
Review, September.
“Incentives to Learn: Merit Scholarships that Pay Kids to Do Well”,
by Kremer, Michael, Edward Miguel, and Rebecca Thornton. (2007).
unpublished working paper, U.C. Berkeley.
“Remedying Education: Evidence from Two Randomized Experiments in
India,” August 2007 by A. Banerjee, S. Cole, E. Duflo and L. Linden.
MIT Working Paper.
Corruption & Rent-seeking
Background Papers
"Corruption and Growth" ch. 12 of Easterly, p. 241-252 "Corruption" by Shleifer and
Vishny (1993), Quarterly Journal of
Economics, vol. 108, pp. 599-617.
"Why Is
Rent-Seeking So Costly to Growth?" by Murphy, Kevin, Andrei Shleifer
and Robert Vishny(1993): American
Economic Review, May issue
"The Political Economy of the Rent-Seeking Society", by
Krueger, Anne(1974): American
Economic Review, June issue.
Recent Articles
"Estimating the Value of Political
Connections”, Fisman, Raymond. (2001). American Economic Review, 91(4),
1095-1102.
“Monitoring Corruption: Evidence from a Field
Experiment in Indonesia”, by Olken, Ben. (2006). unpublished working
paper.
[http://www.nber.org/~bolken/corruptionexperiments.pdf]
“Local Capture: Evidence
from a Central Government Transfer Program in Uganda”, by Reinikka,
Ritva, and Jakob Svensson. (2004). Quarterly
Journal
of
Economics, 119 (2).
“Does Corruption
Produce Unsafe Drivers?” by M Bertrand, S Djankov, R Hanna and S
Mullainathan, Mimeo, Harvard University Dept of Economics.
Forthcoming Quarterly Journal of
Economics.
“Corruption, Norms, and Legal Enforcement: Evidence from Diplomatic
Parking Tickets,” Ray Fismand and Edward Miguel, forthcoming, Journal
of Political Economy, 2008. "Red Tape and
Corruption", by Sergei Guriev (2004), Journal of Development Economics,
vol. 73, pp. 489-504.
Family
Economics
Background Papers
Udry, Christopher (1996), "Gender, Agricultural Production, and the
Theory of the Household," Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 104 (5),
pp. 1010-1045.
Case, A. and A. Deaton. 1998. "Large cash transfers to the elderly in
South Africa." Economic Journal, 108.450:1330-61.
“The Economics of Child
Labor.” by Basu, Kaushik, and Van, Pham Hoang (1998). American Economic Review 88: 412–27.
“Child Labour: An
Economic Perspective.” by Grootaert, Christiaan, and Kanbur, Ravi M.
(1995) International Labour Review
134(2): 187–203.
Recent Articles
"Educational Policy and the Economics of the
family", by Banerjee, Abhijit (2004), Journal
of
Development
Economics, Vol. 74 (1), pp. 3-32.
"Grandmothers and Granddaughters: Old Age Pension
and Intrahousehold Allocation in South Africa," by Duflo, Esther (2003), World Bank Economic
Review, Vol. 17 (1), pp. 1-25.
"Intrahousehold Resource
Allocation in Côte d'Ivoire: Social Norms, Separate Accounts and
Consumption Choices," by Duflo, Esther and Christopher Udry (2001),
NBER WP #10498, also BREAD WP016.
"Public policy and
extended families: Evidence from pensions in South Africa." Bertrand,
M., S. Mullainathan and D. Miller (2003). World Bank
Economic Review, 17.1:27-50.
“Spousal Control and Intra-household Decision Making: An
Experimental Study in the Philippines” by Nava Ashraf, unpublished
working paper.
“Is Child Labor Inefficient?
” by Robinson, James, Jean-Marie Baland (2000) Journal of Political Economy, 108,
663-679.
Environment and development
Background Papers
Recent Articles
“Dams” by Duflo, Esther, and Rohini Pande. (2006) , forthcoming Quarterly
Journal of Economics.
“Economic Growth and the
Rise of Forests”, Foster, Andrew, and Mark Rosenzweig. (2003). Quarterly Journal of Economics, 118
(2), 601-637.
“Air Quality and Early-Life Mortality:
Evidence from Indonesia’s Wildfires”, by Jayachandran, Seema. (2006).
unpublished working paper.
[http://www.stanford.edu/~jayachan/indo_fires.pdf]
“Spring Cleaning: A Randomized Evaluation of Source Water Quality
Improvement”, Kremer, Michael, Jessica Leino, Edward Miguel, and Alix
Zwane (2007).
unpublished working paper.
[http://emlab.berkeley.edu/users/emiguel/miguel_water.pdf]
Academic Integrity:
Academic integrity is constituted by the five core fundamental values
of honesty, trust, fairness, respect
and responsibility (see www.academicintegrity.org). These values are
central to the building, nurturing
and sustaining of an academic community in which all members will
thrive. Adherence to the values
expressed through academic integrity forms a foundation for the
"freedom of inquiry and exchange of
ideas" essential to the intellectual life of the University.
Students are responsible for familiarizing themselves with the
regulations concerning academic integrity
and for ensuring that their assignments conform to the principles of
academic integrity. Information on
academic integrity is available in the Arts and Science Calendar
(Academic Regulation 1), on the Arts
and Science website (see
http://www.queensu.ca/calendars/artsci/pg4.html), and from the
instructor of
this course.
Departures from academic integrity include plagiarism, use of
unauthorized materials, facilitation, forgery
and falsification, and are antithetical to the development of an
academic community at Queen's. Given
the seriousness of these matters, actions which contravene the
regulation on academic integrity carry
sanctions that can range from a warning or the loss of grades on an
assignment to the failure of a course to
a requirement to withdraw from the university.