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Just Rewards? Local Politics and Public Resource Allocation in South India Timothy Besley, Rohini Pande and Vijayendra Rao
October 2007
Paper No' DEDPS 49:
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JEL Classification: H76; H11; O12

Tags: decentralization; india; panchayat.

Making Autocracy Work Timothy Besley and Masayuki Kudamatsu
May 2007
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JEL Classification: P16; P26

Tags: keywords: dictatorship; democracy

Decentralization's Effects on Educational Outcomes in Bolivia and Colombia Jean-Paul Faguet and Fabio Sanchez
March 2006
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Tags: decentralization; education; public investment; bolivia; colombia; local government

This paper has been published as:
World Development (Vol. 36, No. 7) July, 2008

Does Envy Destroy Social Fundamentals? The Impact of Relative Income Position on Social Capital Justina A.V. Fischer and Benno Torgler February 2006
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JEL Classification: Z130; H260; I310; D000; D600

Tags: relative income position; envy; positional concerns; social capital; social norms; happiness

The Unequal Effects of Liberalization: Evidence from Dismantling the License Raj in India Philippe Aghion, Robin Burgess, Stephen Redding and F Zilibotti December 2005
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Political Selection and the Quality of Government: Evidence from South India Timothy Besley, Rohini Pande and Vijayendra Rao
August 2005
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Why So Much Centralization? A Model of Primitive Centripetal Accumulation Jean-Paul Faguet
June 2004
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Tags: centralization; decentralization; local public goods; local government; municipal government; legislative bargaining; capture.

Intrahousehold Efficiency and Individual Insurance in Ghana Markus Goldstein
June 2004
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Gender Discrimination and Growth: Theory and Evidence from India Berta Esteve-Volart
January 2004
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Tags: growth; gender discrimination; labor market; allocation of talent; india.

Government Corruption and Legislative Procedures: is One Chamber Better Than Two? Cecilia Testa
November 2003
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Tags: bicameralism; corruption; lobbying; voting; party polarization.

Do Rural Banks Matter? Evidence from the Indian Social Banking Experiment Robin Burgess and Rohini Pande
August 2003
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Tags: finance and development; rural banking; bank licensing; credit constraints; structural change; diversification; redistribution; povery; growth.

Eviction Threats and Investment Incentives Abhijit Banerjee and Maitreesh Ghatak
June 2003
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Tags: sharecropping tenancy; eviction threats; investment incentives.

Democracy and Education Spending: Has Africa's Move to Multiparty Elections Made a Difference to Policy? David Stasavage
February 2003
Paper No' DEDPS 37:
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JEL Classification: H52; I28; O11

Tags: primary education; political economy; democracy; electoral competition.

The Role of Freedom, Growth and Religion in the Taste for Revolution Robert MacCulloch and Silvia Pezzini
September 2002
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Tags: conflict; freedom; development; growth; religion.

Social Networks and Technology Adoption in Northern Mozambique Oriana Bandiera and Imran Rasul
June 2002
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Tags: social networks; technology adoption; information sharing.

Land Distribution, Incentives and the Choice of Production Techniques in Nicaragua Oriana Bandiera
April 2002
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Tags: agricultural productivity; asymmetric information; crop choice.

Can Labour Regulation Hinder Economic Performance? Evidence from India Timothy Besley and Robin Burgess
February 2002
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Tags: indian industrial relations; industrial disputes act; manufacturing growth; pro-worker regulations; urban poverty; capital and labour.

Is a Friend in Need a Friend Indeed? Inclusion and Exclusion in Mutual Insurance Networks in Southern Ghana Markus Goldstein, Elisabeth Sadoulet and Alain de Janvry February 2002
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Tags: risk; social setworks; sutual insurance; intrahousehold allocation.

Does Social Insurance Help Secure Property Rights? Robert MacCulloch
September 2001
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Tags: social insrance; property rights; revolt.

What Makes a Revolution? Robert MacCulloch
September 2001
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Tags: property rights; revolts; income inequality.

Modernisation and Son Preference Robin Burgess and Juzhong Zhuang
December 2000
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The Political Economy of Government Responsiveness: Theory and Evidence from India Timothy Besley and Robin Burgess
December 2000
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Tags: modernisation; son preference; intra-household allocation; demand analysis; china.

The Rise of Mass Consumption Societies Kiminori Matsuyama
November 2000
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Tags: income distribution; earning-by-doing; endogenous technological changes; nonhomothetic preferences; demand complementarity; the domino effect; cooperative dynamical systems.

Commodity Taxation and Social Welfare: The Generalised Ramsey Rule David Coady and Jean Drèze
September 2000
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Tags: commodity taxation; efficiency; redistribution; shadow prices

Is Child Work Necessary? Sonia R Bhalotra
August 2000
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Tags: child labour; education; poverty; gender; intertemporal labour supply.

Private Investment and Political Uncertainty David Stasavage
July 2000
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Tags: political institutions; private investment; credible commitment; quantile regression.

Child Farm Labour: Theory and Evidence Sonia R Bhalotra and Chris Heady
July 2000
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Tags: child labour; poverty; female education; agricultural households; ghana; pakistan.

Valutation and Evaluation: Measuring the Quality of Life and Evaluating Policy Partha Dasgupta
June 2000
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Tags: externalities; market imperfections; growth; multiple equilibria; sunspot equilibrium

Financial Intermediation, Variability and the Development Process Luis Carranza and Jose E. Galdon-Sanchez
March 2000
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Tags: externalities; market imperfections; growth; multiple equilibria; sunspot equilibria

Fertility, Education and Development: Further Evidence from India Jean Drèze and Mamta Murthi
January 2000
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Tags: fertility; demographic transition; female literacy; india

On the Structure of Tenancy contracts: Theory and Evidence fron 19th Century Rural Sicily Oriana Bandiera
January 2000
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Tags: contract duration; incentives; tenancy agreements.

School Participation in Rural India. Jean Drèze and Geeta Gandhi Kingdon
August 1999
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Tags: education; india; child labour; school quality

Public-Private Partnership for the Provision of Public Goods: Theory and an Application to NGOs Timothy Besley and Maitreesh Ghatak August 1999
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Tags: public goods; non-governmental organizations; incomplete contracting; partnerships.

Minority Representation and Policy Choices: The Significance of Legislator Identity. Rohini Pande
June 1999
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Tags: political economy; minorities; electoral law; india; panel data.

Ethnic Diversity, Mobility and School Funding: Theory and Evidence From Kenya Ted Miguel
June 1999
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Tags: education; ethnicity; kenya; mobility; public growth

The Economics of Non-Governmental Organisations. R. Hopkins and C.D. Scott
May 1999
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Tags: miroeconomic analyses of economic development; formal and informal sectors; non-governmental organisations; institutional arrangements; non-profit institutions; altruism

Land Reform, Poverty Reduction and Growth: Evidence from India Timothy Besley and Robin Burgess
October 1998
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Tags: land reform; political economy; poverty; growth; india

Decentralization Schemes, Cost-Benefit-Analysis, and Net National Product as a Measure of Social Well-Being Partha Dasgupta and Karl-Goran Maler October 1998
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Tags: allocative efficiency; cost benefit analysis; capital; investment; project evaluation

Intrahousehold Resource Allocation in Rural Pakistan: A Semi-parametric Analysis Cliff Attfield and Sonia R Bhalotra
February 1998
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Tags: semiparametric estimation; intrahousehold resource allocation; gender bias; engel curves.

Investigating Rationality in Wage-Setting Sonia R Bhalotra
February 1998
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Tags: efficiency wage; near-rationality; panel data; india.

The Economics of Poverty in Poor Countries Partha Dasgupta
January 1998
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Tags: poverty traps; positive feed-back; undernourishment; property rights; fertility; the commons; local democracy; civil liberties

Hunger in the Contemporary World Amartya Sen
November 1997
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Tags: hunger; food; undernourishment; entitlement; women empowerment; intrafamily distribution; fertility; political incentives; military expenditure

Inequality, Unemployment and Contemporary Europe Amartya Sen
November 1997
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Tags: unemployment; individuality; social exclusion; ageging population; self-help; social responsibility.

Credit in Rural India: A Case Study Jean Drèze, Peter Lanjouw and Naresh Sharma
September 1997
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Tags: india; palanpur; rural credit markets.

Population, Consumption and Resources: Ethical Issues Partha Dasgupta
July 1997
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Tags: potential people; actual people; utilitarianism; generation-relative ethics

The Economics of Food Partha Dasgupta
July 1997
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Tags: food composition; environmental resources; photosynthesis; future population; undernourishment; poverty traps; world hunger; property rights.

What's the Point of a Development Strategy? Amartya Sen
April 1997
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JEL Classification: 010 D60

Tags: economic development; capabilities; valuational weights development indicators;

Development and Thinking at the Beginning of the 21st Century Amartya Sen
March 1997
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Tags: economic development; capabilities; hard states; political incentives; role of public discussion; valuational weights.

Does the Labour Market Explain Lower Female Schooling in India? Geeta Gandhi Kingdon
January 1997
Paper No' DEDPS 01:
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Tags: returns to education; gender; labour force participation; earnings function; selectivity correction; india.

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