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The following is a list of discussion papers published by Boston University's Institute for Economic Development. Hard copies of these papers can be procured by contacting the institute at ied@bu.edu.

Number Date Author(s) Title
189 May 2009 Thomas Gall,
Patrick Legros and Andrew F. Newman		 Mis-match, Re-match, and Investment
188 April 2009 Thomas Gall,
Marc Schiffbauer and Julia Kubny		 Dynamic Effects of Foreign Direct Investment When Credit Markets are Imperfect
187 February 2009 Thomas Gall and
Paolo Masella		 Markets and Jungles
186 June 2008 Alejandra A. Traferri The Relation between Temporary Employment and Firm Ownership Nationality: Evidence from Spain
185 April 2009 Fernanda Estevan The quality of public education and private school
enrollment: an assessment using Brazilian data
184 April 2009 Pranab Bardhan,
Dilip Mookherjee and Neha Kumar		 State-led or Market-led Green Revolution?
Role of Private Irrigation Investment vis-a-vis Local Government Programs in West Bengal’s Farm Productivity Growth
183 April 2009 Ulf von Lilienfeld-Toal,
Dilip Mookherjee and
Sujata Visaria		 The Distributive Impact of Reforms in Credit Enforcement: Evidence from Indian Debt Recovery Tribunals
182 July 2008 Dilip Mookherjee,
Stefan Napel and
Debraj Ray		 Aspirations, Segregation and Occupational Choice
181 April 2009 Jianjun Miao Corporate Tax Policy and Long-Run Capital Formation: The Role of Irreversibility and Fixed Costs
180 March 2009 Hui Chen,
Jianjun Miao and
Neng Wang		 Entrepreneurial Finance and Non-diversifiable Risk
179 February 2009 Hui Chen,
Nengjiu Ju and
Jianjun Miao		 Dynamic Asset Allocation with Ambiguous Return Predictability
178 April 2009 Jeremy Atack,
Fred Bateman,
Michael Haines and
Robert A. Margo		 DID RAILROADS INDUCE OR FOLLOW ECONOMIC GROWTH? URBANIZATION
AND POPULATION GROWTH IN THE AMERICAN MIDWEST, 1850-60
177 April 2009 Leah Platt Boustan and
Robert A. Margo		 JOB DECENTRALIZATION AND RESIDENTIAL LOCATION
176 May 2007 Neha Kumar Pro-Poor Targeting and Participatory Governance: Evidence from Central India
175 December 2007 Nandini Krishnan Political Reservations and Rural Public Good Provision in India
174 April 2008 Erica Field,
Matthew Levinson,
Rohini Pande and
Sujata Visaria		 Segregation, Rent Control, and Riots: The Economics of
Religious Conflict in an Indian City
173 April 2008 Patrick Legros and Andrew F. Newman Competitive Prices and Organizational Choices
172 May 2008 Paola Conconi,
Patrick Legros and Andrew F. Newman		 Trade Liberalization and Organizational Change
171 April 2008 Pranab Bardhan,
Sandip Mitra,
Dilip Mookherjee and Abhirup Sarkar		 POLITICAL PARTICIPATION, CLIENTELISM AND
TARGETING OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS:
Analysis of Survey Results from Rural West Bengal, India
170 April 2008 Dilip Mookherjee and Debraj Ray A Dynamic Incentive-Based Argument for Conditional Transfers
169 March 2008 Jean-Marie Baland, Pranab Bardhan, Sanghamitra Das and Dilip Mookherjee Forests to the People: Decentralization and Forest Degradation in the Indian Himalayas
168 July 2008 Fernanda Brollo Who Is Punishing Corrupt Politicians – Voters or the Central Government? Evidence from the Brazilian Anti-Corruption Program
167 April 2007 Zvika Neeman,
Andrew F. Newman, Claudia Olivetti 		Are Working Women Good for Marriage?
166 April 2007 Christophe Chamley Contingent Government Liabilities against Private
Expectations in England, 1743-49
165 April 2007 Sanjay Reddy,
Sujata Visaria and Muhammad Asali

Intercountry Comparisons of Poverty based on a Capability-based Approach
164 April 2007 Stefano Gagliarducci, Tommaso Nannicini, Paolo Naticchioni Outside Income and Moral Hazard: The Elusive Quest for Good Politicians
163 April 2007 Pranab Bardhan and
Dilip Mookherjee 		Land Reform and Farm Productivity in West Bengal
162 February 2007 Andrew F. Newman Risk Bearing and Entrepreneurship
161 December 2006

Jean-Marie Baland, Pranab Bardhan, Sanghamitra Das, Dilip Mookherjee and Rinki Sarkar

Managing the Environmental Consequences of Growth:  Forest Degradation in the Indian Mid-Himalayas
160 November 2006 Francois Gourio and Jianjun Miao Firm Heterogeneity and the Long-Run Effects of Divident Tax Reform
159 October 2006 Kevin Lang, Erez Siniver The Return to English in a Non-English Speaking Country: Russian Immigrants and Native Israelis in Israel
158 March 2006 Patrick Legros, Andrew F. Newman, Eugenio Proto Smithian Growth through Creative Organization
157 April 2006 Sujata Visaria Legal Reform and Loan Repayment: The Microeconomic Impact of Debt Recovery Tribunals in India
156 July 19, 2005 Christophe Chamley Complementarities in Information Acquisition with Short-Term Trades
155 September 2005 Ulf von Lillienfeld-Toal, Dilip Mookherjee Bankruptcy Law, Bonded Labor and Inequality
154 February 2006 Maristella Botticini, Zvi Eckstein Path Dependence and Occupations
153 August 2005 Abhijit Banerjee, Pranab Bardhan, Kaushik Basu, Ravi Kanbur (Editor),
Dilip Mookherjee 		Theory versus Empirics in Development Economics: A Symposium
152 June 2005 Pranab Bardhan, Dilip Mookherjee Decentralization, Corruption and Government Accountability: An Overview
151 September 2005 Hans Fehr, Sabine Joskisch and Laurence J. Kotlikoff Will China Eat our Lunch or Take us to Dinner? Simulating the Transition Paths of the US, EU, Japan, and China
150 November 2005 Olga M. Fuentes, Simon Gilchrist Skill-biased Technology Adoption: Evidence for the Chilean manufacturing sector
149 November 2004 Patrick Legros, Andrew F. Newman Beauty is a Beast, Frog is a Prince: Assortative Matching with Nontransferabilities
148 May 2004 Patrick Legros, Andrew F. Newman Competing for Ownership
147 January 2005 Hanming Fan, Glenn C. Loury "Dysfunctional Identities" Can Be Rational
146 November 2004 Hanming Fang, Glenn C. Loury Toward an Economic Theory of Dysfunctional Identity
145 April 2005 Kevin Lang, Michael Manove, William T. Dickens Racial Discrimination in Labor Markets with Posted Wage Offers
144 January 2005 Jianjun MIao A Search Model of Centralized and Decentralized Trade
143 April 2005 Dilip Mookherjee and Stefan Napel Intergenerational Mobility and Macroeconomic History Dependence
142 November 2004 Dilip Mookherjee and Debraj Ray Occupational Diversity and Endogenous Inequality
141 December 2004 Robert E. B. Lucas and Sari Pekkala On the Importance of Finnishing School: Half a Century of Inter-Generational Economic Mobility in Finland
140 May 2004 Randall P. Elllis and Germano M. Mwabu The Demand for Outpatient Medical Care in Rural Kenya
139 April 2004 Sanghamitra Das and Dilip Mookherjee Ownership Form and Contractual Inefficiency: Comparing Performance of Cooperatives and Private Factories in the Indian Sugar Industry
138 December 2003 Pranab Bardhan and Dilip Mookherjee Pro-Poor Targeting and Accountability of Local Governments in West Bengal
137 November 2003 Arindam Das-Gupta, Shanto Ghosh, and Dilip Mookherjee Tax Administration Reform and Taxpayer Compliance in India
136 January 2004 Jianjun Miao and Neng Wong Risk, Uncertainty, and Option Exercise
135 December 2003 Robert M. Costrell and Glenn C. Loury Distribution of Ability and Earnings in a Hierarchical Job Assignment Model
134 December 2003 Jianjun Miao Consumption and Saving Under Knightian Uncertainty
133 October 2003 Hans Fehr, Sabine Jokischk and Larry Kotlikoff The Developed World's Demographic Transition - The Rules of Capital Flows, Immigration, and Policy
132 October 2003 Roland G. Fryer, Jr. and Glenn C. Loury Affirmative Action in Winner-Take-All Markets
replaces:
Categorical Redistribution in Winner-Take-All Markets
131 October 2003 Roland G. Fryer, Jr., Glenn C. Loury, and Tolga Yuret Color-Blind Affirmative Action
130 March 2003 Robert E. B. Lucas, Sari A. Pekkala Abilities, Budgets and Age: Inter-Generational Economic Mobility in Finland figures 1 2 3 4 5 6
129 March 2003 Peter Doeringer, David Terkla Foreign Direct Investment, Management Practices, and Social Capital: New Evidence on the Host Country Effects of Japanese Multinationals
128 February 2003 David McKenzie and Dilip Mookherjee The Disbributive Impact of Privatization in Latin America: Evidence from Four Countries
127 January 2003 Marianne Baxter and Michael A. Kouparitsas Trade Structure, Industrial Structure, and International Business Cycles
126 January 2003 Pranab Bardhan, Jean-Marie Baland, Sanghamitra Das, Dilip Mookherjee, Rinki Sarkar The Environmental Impact of Poverty: Evidence from Firewood Collection in Rural Nepal
125 January 2003 Peter Doeringer, Christine Evans-Klock, David Terkla What Attracts High Performance Factories? Management Culture and Regional Advantage
124 January 2003 Maristella Botticini and Zvi Eckstein From Farmers to Merchants: A Human Capital Interpretation of Jewish Economic History
123 October 2001 Taiji Furusawa Threats and Concessions in Tariff Settings
122 April 2002 Pierre-Philippe Combes and Miren Lafourcade Transport Costs, Geography and Regional Inequalities
121 February 2002 Dilip Mookherjee and Debraj Ray Is Equality Stable?
120 November 2001 Robert E. B. Lucas Diaspora and Development: Highly Skilled Migrants from East Asia
119 March 2002 Christophe Chamley Dynamic Speculative Attacks
118 December 2001 Glenn C. Loury Racial Justice; The Superficial Morality of Colour-Blindness in the United States - Note
117 December 2001 Dilip Mookherjee Combating the Crisis in Government Accountability: A Review of Recent International Experience
116 December 2001 Andrew Weiss and Georgiy Nikitin Effects of Ownership Composition on Performance: Evidence form Czech Republic
115 May 2001 Julie Anderson Schaffner Turnover and Job Training in Developing and Developed Countries: Evidence from Colombia and the United States - tables
114 May 2001 Raghabendra Chattopadhyay and Esther Duflo Women's Leadership and Policy Decisions: Evidence from a Nationwide Randomized Experiment in India
113 January 2001 Simon Gilchrist and John C. Williams Transition Dynamics in Vintage Capital Models: Explaining the Postwar Catch-up of Germany and Japan
112 December 2000 Marianne Baxter and Michael A. Kouparitsas What Can Acount for Fluctuations in the Terms of Trade?
111 November 2000 Robert E. B. Lucas The Effects of Proximity and Transportation on Developing Country Population Migrations
110 January 2001 Jonathan Eaton and Samuel Kortum Technology, Trade and Growth: A Unified Framework
109 December 2000 Jonathan Eaton and Samuel Kortum Trade in Capital Goods
108 September 2000 Dilip Mookherjee and Debraj Ray Persistent Inequality
107 June 2000 Dilip Mookherjee and Debraj Ray Contractual Structure and Wealth Accumulation
106 May 2000 Glenn C. Loury Social Exclusion and Ethnic Groups: The Challenge to Economics
105 April 2000 Andrew B. Bernard, Jonathan Eaton, J. Bradford Jensen, Samuel Kortum Plants and Productivity in International Trade
104 March 2000 Pranab Bardhan and Dilip Mookherjee Corruption and Decentralization of Infrastructure Delivery in Developing Countries
103 March 2000 Peter R. Fallon and Robert E. B. Lucas The Impact of Financial Crises on Labor Markets, Household Incomes and Poverty: A Review of Evidence
102 November 1999 Julie Anderson Schaffner Job Stability in Developing and Developed countries: Evidence from Colombia and the United States
101 June 1999 Julie Anderson Schaffner Heteroscedastic Sample Selection and Developing country Wage Equations
100 January 26, 2000 Zvika Neeman and Gerhard O. Orosel Credits, Crises, and Capital Controls: A Microeconomic Analysis
99 January 19, 2000 Russell Cooper and Hubert Kempf Designing Stabilization Policy in a Monetary Union
98 December 1999 Dilip Mookherjee

Contractual Constraints on Firm Performance in Developing Countries - Figures
97 November 30, 1999 Pranab Bardhan and Dilip Mookherjee Relative Capture of Local and Central Governments: An Essay in the Political Economy of Decentralization
96 September 1999 Eli Berman, Kevin Lang and Erez Siniver Language Skill Complementarity: Returns to Immigrant Language Acquisition
95 June 1999 Maristella Botticini and Aloysius Siow Why Dowries?
94 April 1999 R. Cooper and D. Corbae Financial Fragility in a Monetary Economy: Positive Implications and Policy Prescriptions
93 April 1999 Parikshit Ghosh and Debraj Ray Information and Enforcement in Informal Credit Markets
92 January 1999 Daniel A. Ackerberg and Maristella Botticini Endogenous Matching and the Empirical Determinants of Contract Form
91 November 1998 Robert E. B. Lucas Internal Migration and Urbanization: Recent Contributions and New Evidence - Summary of Points
90 November 1998 Pranab Bardhan and Dilip Mookherjee Expenditure Decentralization and the Delivery of Public Services in Developing Countries
89 September 1998 Eli Berman and Zaur Rzakhanov Fertility, Migration, Altruism and Growth
88 August 1998 Russell Cooper and Hubert Kempf Establishing a Monetary Union
87 August 1998 Jonathan Eaton, Eva Gutierrez and Samuel Kortum European Technology Policy
86 May 1998 Jyotsna Jalan and Martin Ravallion Geographic Poverty Traps?
85 May 1998 Andrew Weiss and Georgiy Nikitin Performance of Czech Companies by Ownership Structure
84 March 1998 Jerome Adda and Jonathan Eaton Borrowing with Unobserved Liquidity Constraints: Structural Estimation with an Application to Sovereign Debt
83 February 1998 Julian F. Hofmeyr and Robert E. B. Lucas The Rise in Union Wage Premia in South Africa
82 June 1996 Jonathan Eaton and Samuel Kortum A Rising Tide Raises All Ships: Trade and Diffusion as Conduits of Growth
81 January 1998 Jonathan Eaton, Robert Evenson, Samuel Kortum, Poorti Marino and Jonathan Putnam Technological Specialization in International Patenting
80 October 1997 Abhijit Banerjee, Dilip Mookherjee, Kaivan Munshi and Debraj Ray Inequality, control Rights and Rent Seeking - A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of Sugar Cooperatives in Maharashtra - Figures
79 September 1997 Jonathan Eaton and Samuel Kortum Technology and Bilateral Trade
78 July 1997 Eli Berman, John Bound and Stephen Machin Implications of Skill-Biased Technological Change: International Evidence
77 January 1997 Dilip Mookherjee Wealth Effects, Incentives and Productivity
76 November 1996 Tarun Kabiraj and Chun-Lei Yang Licensing vs. Innovation Incentives under Uncertainties in Government Policies
75 November 1996 Ramprasad Sengupta Economic Development and CO2 Emission: Economy-Environment Relation and Policy Approach to Choice of Emission Standard for Climate Control - Abstract
74 July 1996 Sanjay Banerji and Manas Ranjan Gupta The Efficiency Wage Under Long-run Employment - Abstract
73 March 1996 Debraj Ray and Kaoru Ueda Egalitarianism and Incentives - Abstract
72 February 1996 Ghazala Mansuri Tenency, Credit Markets, Segmentation, and Hierarchical Loan Contracts - Abstract
71 October 1995 Yoshikazu Yuasa Synchronization of Japanese Money Markets - Abstract
70 December 1995 Jonathan Eaton and Akiko Tamura Japanese and U.S. Exports and Investment as Conduits of Growth
69 December 1995 Arindam Das-Gupta and Dilip Mookherjee Tax Amnesties as Asset Laundering Devices - Abstract
68 December 1995 Binod Khadria Economic Strategies for Banishing Child-Labour: Compulsory Primary Education, Specific vs. General Egalitarianism, and Innovation in Financial Instruments for Mobilization of Participation - Abstract
67 December 1995 Laurence J. Kotlikoff Applying Generational Accounting to Developing Countries - Abstract
66 October 1995 Laurence J. Kotlikoff Privatization of Social Security: How it Works and Why it Matters
65 October 1995 Joseph G. Altonji, Fumio Hayashi and Laurence J. Kotlikoff Parental Altruism and Inter Vivos Transfers: Theory and Evidence
64 October 1995 Parikshit Ghosh and Debraj Ray Cooperation in Community Interaction Without Information Flows
63 June 1995 Jonathan Eaton and Samuel Kortum Engines of Growth: Domestic and Foreign Sources of Innovation
62 July 1995 Hiranya Mukhopadhyay Private Investment and External Debt: The Debt Overhang Hypothesis Revisited - Abstract
61 May 1995 Jerome Adda and Jesus Gonzalo P-Values for Non-Standard Distributions with an Application to the DF Test
60 June 1995 Tarun Kabiraj To Protect Or Not To Protect Foreign-Owned Patents -- A Strategic Decision - Abstract
59 May 1995 Jonathan Eaton and Raquel Fernandez Sovereign Debt
58 May 1995 Parikshit Ghosh On The Coexistence of Share, Rent and Wage Contracts in a Rural Economy - Abstract
57 April 1995 Arindam Das-Gupta, Radhika Lahiri and Dilip Mookherjee Income Tax Compliance in India: An Empirical Analysis
56 April 1995 Hiranya Mukhopadhyay Structural Adjustment Programs: Some New Findings - Abstract
55 April 1995 Dilip Mookherjee Informational Rents and Property Rights in Land - Abstract
54 April 1995 Kenneth Rogoff What Remains of Purchasing Power Parity?
53 April 1995 Arindam Das Gupta and Dilip Mookherjee Tax Amnesties in India; An Empirical Evaluation - Abstract
52 April 1995 Arindam Das-Gupta and Dilip Mookherjee Reforming Indian Income Tax Enforcement - Abstract
51 February 1995 Jonathan Eaton and Samuel Kortum Patenting and Productivity in the OECD - Abstract
50 November 1994 Jonathan Eaton and Samuel Kortum International Patenting and Technology Diffusion
49 August 1994 Jonathan Eaton and Maxim Engers Threats and Promises
48 July 1994 Jonathan Eaton and Akilo Tamura Bilateralism and Regionalism in Japanese and U.S. Trade and Direct Foreign Investment Patterns
47 July 1994 Robert Dekle and Jonathan Eaton Agglomertion and the Price of Land: Evidence from the Prefectures
46 July 1994 Robert E. B. Lucas International Environmental Indicators: Trade, Income and Endowments
45 May 1994 J. Mahender Reddy United States Investment in India
44 April 1994 Anindita Mukherjee Diversification of Contracts in Rural Labor Markets
43 November 1994 Robert E. B. Lucas References for "Internal Migration in Developing Countries"
43 April 1994 Robert E. B. Lucas Internal Migration in Developing Countries
42 April 1994 Jonathan Eaton Cross-Border Banking
41 April 1994 Robert E. B. Lucas The Impact of Structural Adjustment on Training Needs
40 April 1994 Robert E. B. Lucas and Donald W. Verry Structural Adjustment and Income Distribution in Malaysia
39 February 1994 Neelam Singh Inter-Firm Variations of Export and Import Intensities in the Indian Pharmaceutical Industry
38 February 1994 Randall P. Elllis, D. Keith McInnes, Elizabeth H. Stephenson Inpatient and outpatient Health Care Demand in Cairo, Egypt
37 February 1994 Samuel Kortum A Model of Research, Patenting, and Productivity Growth
36 February 1994 Jonathan Eaton and Zvi Eckstein Cities and Growth: Theory and Evidence from france and Japan
35 November 1993 Maria Sagrario Floro and Debraj Ray Direct and Indirect Linkages Between Formal and Informal Financial Institutions: An Analytical Approach
34 April 1994 (Revised0 Anindita Mukherjee The Labour Markets in Indian Villages
33 November 1993 Shane Hunt Peru: the Current Economic Situation in Long Term Perspective
32 November 1993 K. Shanthi Female Mobility and Gender Dimensions in Labour Migration
31 March 1993 Reuven Glick and Kenneth Rogoff Global Versus Country-Specific Productivity Shocks and the Current Acocount
30 December 1992 Christophe Chamley The Welfare Cost of Taxation and Endogenous Growth
29 December 1992 Anindita Mukherjee and Debraj Ray Labor Tying
28 October 1992 Amartya Sen Markets and Governments
27 October 1992 Pranab Bardhan The Implications of New Growth Theory for Trade and Development: An Overview
26 July 1992 Timothy Besley, Stephen Coate and Glenn Loury On the Allocative Performance of Rotative Savings and Credit Associations
25 February 1992 Raquel Fernandez and Richard Rogerson The Political Economy of Educational Subsidies
24 February 1992 Timothy Besley, Stephen Coate and Glenn Loury The Economics of Rotating Savings and Credit Associations
23 January 1992 Debraj Ray Labor Markets, Adaptive Mechanisms and Nutritional Status - Abstract
22 January 1992 Jonathan Eaton and Yoshiyasu Ono Tariff Wars, Retaliation and Managed Trade - Abstract
21 August 1991 Jonathan Eaton Sovereign Debt: A Primer
20 December 1991 Zvi Eckstein and Itzhak Zilcha The Effects of Compulsory Schooling on Growth, Income Distribution and Welfare
19 August 1991 Gustav F. Papanek Market of Government: Lessons from a Comparative Analysis of the Experience in Pakistan and India - Abstract
18 August 1991 Joan-Maria Esteban and Debraj Ray On the Measurement of Polarization
17 May 1991 Christophe Chamley Externalities and Dynamics in Models of "Learning or Doing"
16 May 1991 Rahul Khullar Economic Reformes in India 1985-1990: The Case of the Elephant and the Seven Blind Men- Abstract
15 April 1991 Randall P. Ellis and Germano M. Mwabu The Demand for Outpatient Medical Care in Rural Kenya
14 April 1993 Jonathan Eaton and Maxim Engers Sanctions
13 December 1990 Robert Dekle Alternative Estimates of Japanese Saving and Comparisons with the U.S.: Can the Capital Gains to Land be Included in "Saving"?
12 May 1990 Carlos Bazdresch and Santiago Levy Populism and Economic Policy in Mexico, 1970-1982
11 February 1990 Jonathan Harris Global Institutions and Ecological Crisis
10 February 1990 Kenneth Chomitz Technological Determinants of Non-Market Clearing Wages: Results from an Indonesian Survey
9 February 1990 Kenneth Chomitz Industrial Relations and Reliability in LDC Manufacturing
8 February 1990 Raquel Fernandez and Dani Rodrik Why is Trade Reform so Unpopular? On Status Quo Bias in Policy Reforms
7 January 1990 Santiago Levy and Roberto Rosales Multiple Exchange Rates and Foreign Exchange Rationing: theory and an Application to El Salvador
6 December 1989 Paul P. Streeten Poverty
5 December 1989 Paul P. Streeten Global Prospects in an Interdependent World
4 December 1989 Paul P. Streeten Hunger
3 November 1989 Sarthi Acharya and Gustav F. Papanek Agricultural Wages and Poverty in India: A Model of Rural Labor Markets
2 November 1989 Peter R. Fallon and Robert E. B. Lucas Job Security Regulations and the Dynamic Demand for Industrial Labor in India and Zimbabwe
1 November 1989 Santiago Levy and Sean Nolan Trade and Foreign Investment Policies Under Imperfect Competition: Lessons for Developing Countries