Description The field of development economics has evolved since volume 3 of the Handbook of Development Economics was published more than a decade
ago. Volume 4 takes stock of some of the newer trends and their implications for research in the field and our understanding of economic
development.
The handbook is divided into four sections which reflect these developments, of which the first deals with agricultural
and rural development. Section two is concerned with developments in the theory and evidence regarding public goods and political economy.
The third section is focused on the behavior of households and individuals regarding various aspects of human capital investments, in
the face of the various constraints, particularly market incentives and public goods. The final section contains papers that describe
the different methods now available, both experimental and non-experimental, to conduct program evaluations, as well as describing papers
that implement these methods.
The authors of the chapters are all experts in the fields they survey and extend, and this volume promises
to be an invaluable addition to the Handbooks in Economics series and a useful reference to graduate students, researchers and professionals
in the field of development economics.
Audience
The Handbook is a definitive reference source suitable for use by professional researchers, advanced graduate students, or by those seeking a teaching supplement.
Contents Introduction
I. New Insights into Rural and Agricultural Development
1. Economic Development and the Decline
of Agricultural Employment
A. Foster & M. Rosenzweig
2. Information Networks in Dynamic Agrarian Economies
K. Munshi
II. Public Goods and Political Economy: Theory and Evidence
3. Public Action for Public Goods
A. Banerjee,
L. Iyer, & R. Somanathan
4. Understanding Political Corruption in Low Income Countries
R. Pande
III. Human Resources
and Household Responses to Market Incentives and Public Goods
5. Household Formation and Marriage Markets
A. Quisumbing & M.
Fafchamps
6. Population Policies, Fertility, Women's Human Capital, and Child Quality
P. Schultz
7. Health Economics
for Low Income Countries
G. Mwabu
8. Health over the Life Course
J. Strauss & D. Thomas
9. Schooling
in Developing Countries: The Roles of Supply, Demand and Government Policy
P. Orazem & E. King
10. The Impact of Child Health and Nutrition on Education in Less Developed Countries
E. Miguel & P. Glewwe
11.
Child Labor
E. Edmonds
12. Extended Family and Kinship Networks: Economic Insights and Evolutionary
Directions
D. Cox & M. Fafchamps
IV. Program Evaluation: Methods and Applications
13. Evaluating Anti-Poverty Programs
M. Ravallion
14. Evaluating Social Programs with Endogenous Program Placement and Selection of the Treated
P.
Todd
15. Using Randomization in Development Economics Research: A Toolkit
E. Duflo, R. Glennerster & M. Kremer
16. Evaluating Conditional Schooling Health and Health Programs
S. Parker, L. Rubalcava, & G.Teruel
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