Corsi di Studio del Dipartimento di Culture, Politica e Società

Part three of the course focuses on the rural-urban divide within developing countries, focusing on migration and the developmental impact of rural institutions and policies like land, and credit market.

https://cramsurvey.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Spaull-et-al.-NIDS-CRAM-Wave-1-Synthesis-Report-Overview-and-Findings-1.pdf

https://cramsurvey.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/1.-Spaull-et-al.-NIDS-CRAM-Wave-2-Synthesis-Report.pdf

Wave 3 report is expected by March.

Lectures 2 & 3. Growth: theories and evidence. Ray, Ch. 3-4 & 9  Easterly, Ch. 2-3, 89

Mankiw, N. Gregory, David Romer, and David Weil. (1992). "A Contribution to the Empirics of Economic Growth", Quarterly Journal of Economics, 107, 407-438.

Banerjee, A, "A Simple Model of Herd Behavior," Quarterly Journal of Economics, 107 (3), pp. 797-817. 

Kremer, M., "The O-Ring Theory of Economic Development" Quarterly Journal of Economics, 108 (3), pp. 551-575, 1993. 

Krueger, Alan and Mikael Lindahl. (2001). "Education for Growth: Why and For Whom?"Journal of Economic Literature, 39 (4), 1101-1136.

Budlender & Brathaug (2002) “Calculating the Value of unpaid labour”StatsSA 2002/01 http://www.statssa.gov.za/publications/WorkingUnpaidLabour/WorkingUnpaidLabour.pdf

Hall and Jones (1999), "Why do some Countries Produce so much more Output per Worker than Others?" Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol. 114 (1), pp.  83-116.

 Acemoglu, J. Robinson and S. Johnson (2001),"The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation" ,   American Economic Review.

 Glaeser E., Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes and Andrei Shleifer (2004)"Do Institutions Cause Growth?", NBER Working Paper 10568.

 Nunn, Nathan (2009) " Slave Trade and the origin of mistrust in Africa" NBER Working Paper, 2009.

 Rodrik, D., Arvind Subramanian, and Francesco Trebbi, (2002) "Institutions Rule: The Primacy of Institutions over Geography and Integration in Economic Development,"

 Sachs, Jeffrey (2003)"Institutions Don't Rule: Direct Effects of Geography on Per Capita Income,", NBER Working Paper 9490.

 Bloom, David, and Jeffrey Sachs. (1998). "Geography, Demography, and Economic Growth in Africa," Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 2, 207-295.

Lecture 4 : 24 March The Curse of Natural Resources: Bardhan & Udry, Vol I Ch.12

"Addressing the Natural Resource Curse: An Illustration from Nigeria" by Sala-i-Martin and Subramanian (2003), NBER Working Paper 9804.

"The Curse of Natural Resources" by Jeffrey Sachs and Andrew Warner (2001), European Economic Review, vol. 45, pp. 827-838.

"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.

Lecture 5: 31 March Foreign Aid and Conditional Lending :Easterly, Ch. 2  “Macroeconomic Management of Foreign  Aid” Edited by Isard et al, IMF.

 "Aid, Policies and Growth" by Craig Burnside and David Dollar (2000), American Economic Review, vol. 90 (4), pp. 847-68.

 "New Data, New Doubts: A Comment on Burnside and Dollar (2000)," Easterly, Levine and Roodman (2003), NBER Working Paper 9846.

 "Aid, Policies and Growth: Revisiting the Evidence," by Burnside and Dollar (2004), World Bank Policy Research Paper 3251. 

 "IMF and Economic Growth: The Effects of Programs, Loans and Compliance with Conditionality" by Axel Dreher, World Development, vol. 34(5), 2006, pp. 769-788.

Lectures 6 & 7 Poverty & Inequality: concepts and measurement Ray, Ch. 6-8 Easterly, Ch. 4

Deaton, Angus. (2005). "Measuring Poverty in a Growing World (or Measuring Growth in a Poor World)," Review of Economics and Statistics, 87(1), 1-19.

Banerjee, Abhijit, and Esther Duflo. (2003). "Inequality and Growth: What Can the Data Say?" Journal of Economic Growth, 8(3), 267-299.

Klasen Stefan (2000) Poverty and Deprivation in South Africa, Review of Income and Wealth , Series 46 No.1.l

 Leibrandt, Finn, Woolard (2012) Describing and Decomposing Post-apartheid inequality in South Africa, Development Southern Africa. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0376835X.2012.645639

 Kingdon & Knight (2006) Subjective well-being poverty vs. Income poverty and capabilities poverty? Journal of Development Studies, Vol. 42, No. 7, 1199–1224. 

 Ismail Z & Uma Kollamparambil (2015) “Youth Unemployment Duration and Competing Exit States: What hides behind long spells of Black youth unemployment in South Africa?” African Development Review, Vol. 27, No. 3, 2015, 301–314.

 Kollamparambil, Uma & Aarifah Razak (2016) ‘Trends in Gender Wage Gap and Discrimination in South Africa: A comparative analysis across races' Indian Journal of Human Development, Vol 10, Issue 1.

Lecture 8 (Prof F Booysen): Health, Social capital and Development

 Carpiano, R.M. (2006). “Toward a neighborhood resource-based theory of social capital for health: Can Bourdieu and sociology help?” Social Science & Medicine 62, 165–175.

 Paldam, M. (2000). “Social Capital: One or Many? Definition and Measurement.” Journal of Economic Surveys, 14(5), 629-653.

 Powell, K., Wilcox, J., Clonan, A., Bissell, P., Preston, L., Peacock, M. & Holdsworth, M. (2015). “The role of social networks in the development of overweight and obesity among adults: a scoping review.” BMC Public Health, 15, 996.

 Robison, L.J., Schmid, A.A. & Siles, M.E. (2002). “Is Social Capital Really Capital?” Review of Social Economy, 60(1), 1-21.

 Scheffler, R.M. & Brown, T.T. (2008). “Social capital, economics, and health: new evidence.” Health Economics, Policy and Law, 3, 321–331.

 Seferiadis, A.A., Cumming, S., Zweekhorst, M.B.M. & Bunders, J.F.G. (2015). “Producing social capital as a development strategy: Implications at the micro-level.” Progress in Development Studies, 15(2), 170–185.

 Story, W.T. (2013). “Social capital and health in the least developed countries: A critical review of the literature and implications for a future research agenda.” Global Public Health, 8(9), 983–999.

 Umberson, D. & Montez, J.K. (2010). “Social Relationships and Health: A Flashpoint for Health Policy.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 51(S), S54 –S66.

 Woolcock, M. & Narayan, D. (2000). “Social Capital: Implications for Development Theory, Research, and Policy.” World Bank Research Observer, 15(2), 225-249.

Lecture 9: Economics of Happiness/Subjective wellbeing

Easterlin RA (1973) Does money buy happiness? Public Interest 30:3–10. 

Easterlin RA (1995) Will raising the incomes of all increase the happiness of all? J Econ Behav Organ 27:35–47.

Posel, D.R. and Casale, D.M. 2011. Relative standing and subjective well-being in South Africa: The role of perceptions, expectations and income mobility. Social Indicators Research. 104(2), pp.195-223.

Kollamparambil U (2020) Happiness, Happiness Inequality and Income inequality in South Africa, Journal of Happiness Studies, 21.

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10902-019-00075-0.pdf

Kollamparambil, U. and Mathentamo, Q.  (2020). Subjective wellbeing inequality in South Africa 2008–14: An unconditional quantile decomposition analysis, Development Southern Africa,  37 (6), 1012-1032.  10.1080/0376835x.2020.1799757

Kollamparambil U (2020) Subjective wellbeing inequality between cohabiting partners: Does a household Kuznets curve exist? Journal of Happiness Studies.

Kollamparambil U (mimeo) Intergenerational mobility of Subjective wellbeing in South Africa.

Lecture 10 An introduction to Gender and Feminist Economics Prof Dori Posel

Chant, S. and C. Sweetman. (2012) “Fixing Women or Fixing the World? ‘Smart Economics,’ Efficiency Approaches, and Gender Equality in Development.” Gender & Development 20(3): 517-529.

* Elson, D. (1993) “Gender-aware analysis and development economics”. Journal of International Development 5(2): 237 – 247.

* Folber, N. and Nelson, J.A. (2000) “For love or money – or both?” Journal of Economic Perspectives 14(4): 123 – 140.

Himmelweit, S. (2002) “Making visible the hidden economy: the case for gender-impact analysis of economic policy.” Feminist Economics 8(1): 49-70.

Special issue of Agenda: Gender and the economy in post-apartheid South Africa: Changes and challenges (2019). Volume 33, no. 4.

* Casale, D. and Posel, D. (2005) “Women and the economy: How far have we come?” Agenda 64: 21-29.

Hatch, M. and Posel, D. (2018) "Who cares for children? A quantitative study of childcare in South Africa". Development Southern Africa 35(2):267 – 282.

Ntuli, M. and Wittenberg, M. (2013) Determinants of black women’s labour force participation in post-apartheid South Africa. Journal of African Economies 22(3): 347-374.

* Posel, D. (2014) "Gender inequality". In Bhorat, H., Hirsch, A., Kanbur, R, and Ncube, N. (eds.) Oxford Companion to the Economics of South Africa. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 303-310.

Posel, D. and Rogan, M. (2012) "Gendered trends in poverty in the post-apartheid period, 1995 – 2006". Development Southern Africa 29 (1): 97-113.

Lecture 11 : Rural-Urban Migration Ray, Ch. 10

Posel, D. (2010). Households and labour migration in post-apartheid South Africa. Studies in Economics and Econometrics, 34 (3), 129–141.

Mulcahy, Kirsten and Kollamparambil, Uma (2016) “ Subjective well-being Impact of Rural –Urban migration in South Africa”, Journal of Development Studies, 52, No. 9.

Kollamparambil, Uma (2017) Impact of internal in-migration on income inequality of receiving areas: A district level study of South Africa, Journal of Development Studies.  http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00220388.2016.1277019

Lecture 12 : Rural Land and Credit markets. Ray, Ch. 11, 12 & 14

Banerjee, Abhijit, Paul Gertler and Maitresh Ghatak (2002), "Empowerment and Efficiency: Tenancy Reform in West Bengal," Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 110 (2), pp 239-280. 

Burgess, Robin And Rohini Pande(2003), "Do Rural Banks Matter? Evidence from the Indian Social Banking Experiment," mimeo, Yale.

Morduch, Jonathan (1999), "The Microfinance Promise," Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. 37 (4), pp. 1569–1614.

Mosley Paul and Hulme (1998) "Microfinance enterprise: Is there a conflict between growth and poverty alleviation", World Development, Vol6 No.5

Muchnick J & Kollamparambil, Uma (2015) "Determinants of Microfinance Repayment Performance: A Study of South African MFIs" Journal Of Economic & Financial Sciences, Vol 8(2).