K Munshi - The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2003 - qje.oxfordjournals.org
Abstract This paper attempts to identify job networks among Mexican migrants in the US
labor market. The empirical analysis uses data on migration patterns and labor market
outcomes, based on a sample of individuals belonging to multiple origin-communities in ...
K Munshi - Journal of Development Economics, 2004 - Elsevier
Information flows are weaker in a heterogeneous population when the performance of a new
technology is sensitive to unobserved individual characteristics, preventing individuals from
learning from neighbors' experiences. This characterization of social learning is tested ...
K Munshi… - 2003 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: This paper addresses the question of how traditional institutions interact with the
forces of globalization to shape the economic mobility and welfare of particular groups of
individuals in the new economy. We explore the role of one such traditional institution--the ...
K Munshi… - 2009 - nber.org
This paper examines the hypothesis that the persistence of low spatial and marital mobility
in rural India, despite increased growth rates and rising inequality in recent years, is due to
the existence of sub-caste networks that provide mutual insurance to their members. ...
A Banerjee… - Review of Economic Studies, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
This paper studies the effect of community identity on investment behaviour in the knitted
garment industry in the South Indian town of Tirupur. We document very large and
systematic differences in both levels of capital stock and the capital intensity of production ...
A Banerjee, D Mookherjee, K Munshi… - Journal of Political …, 2001 - sws.bu.edu
This paper could not have been completed without the support and encouragement that we
received from Shivajirao Patil and Jamsheed Kanga. The staff of the Maharashtra State
Federation of Co-operative Sugar Factories, the Directorate of Economics and Statistics, ...
K Munshi… - Journal of Development Economics, 2006 - Elsevier
This paper provides a norm-based explanation for two features of the fertility transition that
have been observed in many different settings: the slow response to external interventions
and the wide variation in the response to the same intervention. Most societies have ...
K Munshi… - 2008 - nber.org
Parochial politics is typically associated with poor leadership and low levels of public good
provision. This paper explores the possibility that community involvement in politics need not
necessarily worsen governance and, indeed, can be efficiency-enhancing when the ...
AV Banerjee, E Duflo… - Journal of the European …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Is capital allocated so that its marginal product is equated to the market interest
rate? Is the marginal product of capital equalized across its alternative uses? This paper
attempts to answer both of these questions using data from India, and concludes that both ...
[CITATION] Identification of Network Effects: Mexican Migrants in the US Labor Market
K Munshi - NEUDC conference, Boston, MA, 2001
K Munshi… - University of Pennsylvania, mimeo, 2002 - economics.sas.upenn.edu
Abstract This paper provides an explanation for two features of the development process
that have been observed in many different settings: the slow response to external
interventions, and the wide variation in the response to the same intervention. One ...
A Banerjee… - 2000 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: This paper studies the effects of social network based lending. This is a pervasive
phenomenon in most of the developing world. Access to such network capital has an
obvious influence on investment. It also influences the pattern of migration since, ceteris ...
N Luke… - The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2006 - MIT Press
Abstract This paper explores new roles that traditionally rural kinship networks organized
around the marriage institution might play in improving labor market outcomes in urban
Africa. Using new data from Kisumu, Kenya, and controlling for selection into marriage, we ...
[CITATION] Why is mobility in India so low
K Munshi… - Social Insurance, 2005
[CITATION] Inequality, control rights and efficiency: a study of sugar cooperatives in Western Maharashtra
A Banerjee, D Mookherjee, K Munshi… - Journal of Political Economy, 2001
K Munshi - Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 1993 - Elsevier
Abstract The absence of a structural relationship between trip generation and transportation
supply characteristics has been seen as a major drawback of conventional transportation
demand models. We respond to this criticism by developing a model of household activity ...
[CITATION] Social effects in the demographic transition: Evidence from Matlab, Bangladesh
K Munshi… - Unpublished paper, Department of Economics, Boston …, 1998
K Munshi… - Economics of Transition, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
This paper studies how traditional networks in rural and urban India have responded to economic
development. In rural areas, the impact of the Green Revolution on within-network inequality
has resulted in defection by the wealthiest members of caste-based social insurance ...
A Banerjee, D Mookherjee, K Munshi… - Journal of Political, 1997 - bu.edu
Abstract This paper presents a theory of rent-seeking within farmer cooperatives in which
inequality of asset ownership affects relative control rights of different groups of members.
The two key assumptions are constraints on lumpsum transfers from poorer members and ...
N Luke… - Journal of Development Economics, 2007 - Elsevier
This paper assesses the role of social affiliation, measured by caste, in shaping investments
in child health. The special setting that we have chosen for the analysis–tea estates in the
South Indian High Range–allows us to control nonparametrically for differences in income ...
[CITATION] Social Change and Individual Decisions: With an Application to the Demographic Transition
K Munshi… - … manuscript, Department of Economics, University of …, 2000
N Luke… - … , Mass.: Harvard University, BREAD Working Paper, 2005 - nber.org
Abstract This paper provides empirical support for the view that women belonging to
historically disadvantaged communities, conveniently measured by caste in India, will
emerge as active agents of change when resources are made available to them, moving ...
J Eeckhout… - Man& uscript, Brown University, 2004 - evan.lunarmania.com
Abstract Many economic institutions such as firms, professional partnerships, and financial
intermediaries, bring heterogeneous agents together to exploit gains from trade. This paper
presents a general framework for analyzing decentralized matching into such economic ...
N Luke… - Providence, RI: Brown University, 2007 - brown.edu
Abstract Economic globalization will give many women in developing countries access to
steady and relatively remunerative employment for the first time, potentially shifting
bargaining power within their households and changing the choices that are made for ...
K Munshi - The Review of Economic Studies, 2011 - restud.oxfordjournals.org
Abstract The “new classical” theory states that families in low-skill occupations with low
levels of human capital can stay poor from one generation to the next, while families in high-
skill occupations with correspondingly high levels of human capital stay wealthy, despite ...
K Munshi… - 2008 - nber.org
This paper documents the presence of non-economic career motivations in the US labor
market, explores reasons why such motivations could arise, and provides an explanation for
why they might have persisted across many generations. The analysis links ethnic ( ...
N Luke, K Munshi… - Journal of the European …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract This paper reports on recent research that explores the role of the marriage
institution in facilitating economic activity in two urban labor markets: Kisumu, Kenya and
Bombay, India. Kin and affine networks, organized around the marriage institution, are ...
K Munshi - 2007 - nber.org
Entrepreneurship has been traditionally concentrated in the hands of a few small
communities in most developing economies. As these economies restructure, it is evident
that these communities will be unable to satisfy the increased demand for new ...
[CITATION] Why is mobility in India so low? Social insurance, inequality
K Munshi… - 2005 - and growth. Mimeo: Harvard …
KD Munshi… - Journal of Development Economics, 1994 - Elsevier
[CITATION] Learning from your neighbors: Why do some innovations spread faster than others?
K Munshi - Manuscript. Philadelphia: Univ. Pennsylvania, 1999
N Luke… - 2003 - ssrn.com
Abstract: The marriage institution, which plays an important role in regulating sexual activity
in most societies, traditionally placed few restrictions on male extra-marital relationships in
sub-Saharan Africa. If this traditional pattern continues to remain in place today, then it ...
[CITATION] Social norms and individual decisions during a period of change: An application to the demographic transition
K Munshi… - University of Pennsylvania, 2000
K Munshi - Handbook of development economics, 2007 - Elsevier
Abstract Over the past 50 years, people living in developing countries have gained access to
technologies, such as high yielding agricultural seed varieties and modern medicine, that
have the potential to dramatically alter the quality of their lives. Although the adoption of ...
N Luke… - Journal of Development Economics, 2011 - Elsevier
Economic globalization will give many women in developing countries access to steady and
relatively remunerative employment for the first time, potentially shifting bargaining power
within their households and changing the choices that are made for their children. This ...
[CITATION] Investment behavior and financial structure: The case of the Japanese pharmaceutical industry
KD Munshi, M Reich - 1993 - Program on the Pharmaceutical …
[CITATION] Women as Agents of Change: Female Income
N Luke… - Social Affiliation, and Household Decisions in South …, 2005
K Munshi… - Brown University, 2007 - indiana.edu
Abstract This paper draws a connection between ethnic labor market networks in the
American Midwest when it was first being settled, the local identity that emerged
endogenously to support these networks, and occupational mobility today. Individuals ...
N Luke… - unpublished paper, 2003 - econ.brown.edu
Abstract This paper explores two new and important roles that the marriage institution could
potentially play in urban Africa: facilitating kin and affine networks that find jobs for their
members when information problems are present in the labor market and regulating non- ...
Abstract: This paper tests the proposition that non-market institutions can respond flexibly to
changes in the economic environment that they operate in, using data from Chennai's chit
fund auctions. These auctions bring borrowers and lenders together in small groups, and ...
[CITATION] Mitigating Regulatory Inefficiency: The Non-market Response to Financial Regulation in India
K Munshi… - 1989 - trid.trb.org
Abstract: This study involved the development and testing of a new form of mode and route
choice model for freight transportation which can be applied to analyze transportation
networks in which services are represented by explicit routes and schedules. Such a ...
[CITATION] Networks in the Modern Economy: Mexican Migrants in the US
K Munshi - 2003
[CITATION] Rosenzweig, Mark (2008) The efficacy of parochial politics: Caste, commitment, and competence in Indian local governments
K Munshi - Mimeo
[CITATION] Forthcoming.“Traditional Institutions Meet the Modern World: Caste, Gender, and Schooling Choice in a Globalizing Economy.”
K Munshi… - American Economic Review
[CITATION] rWhy is Mobility in India so Low
K Munshi… - Social Insurance, Inequality, and Growth, sWorking …, 2007
[CITATION] qThe Effi cacy of Parochial Politics: Caste
K Munshi… - Commit& ment, and Competence in Indian Local …, 2008
J Eeckhout… - Journal of the European Economic …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract This paper analyzes an informal financial institution that brings heterogeneous
agents together in groups. We analyze decentralized matching into these groups, and the
equilibrium composition of participants that consequently arises. We find that participants ...
[CITATION] lThe Birth of a Business Community: Historical Disadvantage and Contemporary Mobility in Indiam
K Munshi - 2008 - mimeo Brown Univ
[CITATION] Social learning and technology diffusion: An application to Indian agriculture
K Munshi - Unpublished paper, Department of Economics, MIT, 1994
[CITATION] Development as a Process of Social Change: An Application to the Theory of Fertility Transition
K Munshi… - 2001 - mimeo., Department of Economics, …
[CITATION] New Roles for Marriage in Urban Africa: Sexual Activity and Labor Market Outcomes in Kisumu
N Luke… - 2004 - Brown University, mimeo
[CITATION] July 2005.“Why is Mobility in India So Low? Social Insurance, Inequlaity
K Munshi… - and Growth.” Working Paper
[CITATION] Forthcoming.“Traditional Institutions Meet the Modern World: Caste, Gender and Schooling in a Globalizing Economy.”
K Munshi… - American Economic Review
[CITATION] Social Effects in the Demographic Transition: Evidence from Matlab, Bangladesh. Mimeo. University of Pennsylvania
K Munshi… - 1998
K Munshi… - 2010 - princeton.edu
Abstract This paper develops a model of political selection that extends the citizencandidate
models of Osborne and Slivinski (1996) and Besley and Coate (1997) by allowing for a
vertical (competence) and a horizontal (preference) dimension to leadership quality and ...
K Munshi - 2008 - idea.uab.es
Abstract This paper traces the transition to entrepreneurship in a historically disadvantaged
community over a thirty year period. Empirical support is provided for the increasing role
played by a new communitybased network in bringing first-generation entrepreneurs into ...
K Chay… - Manuscript, Brown Univ, 2011 - econ.brown.edu
Abstract Did slavery permanently undermine the African-American community? Instead of
using whites as the benchmark, this paper looks within the African-American population in
the decades following the Civil War to answer this question. Two significant opportunities ...
[CITATION] Why is Mobility in India So Low? Social Insurance, Inequality, and Growth, NBER Working Paper, 14850
K Munshi… - 2010
K Munshi… - Mimeogr., Brown Univ, 2008 - stanford.edu
Abstract This paper documents the presence of non-economic career motivations in the US
labor market, explores reasons why such motivations could arise, and provides an
explanation for why they might have persisted across many generations. The analysis ...
[CITATION] The Birth of a Business Community: Tracing Occupational Migration in a Developing Economy
K Munshi - 2007
[CITATION] 'Network decay in traditional economies
K Munshi, M Rosenzweig - … and decay of …, 2007 - Russell Sage Foundation …
KD Munshi - 1989 - en.scientificcommons.org
N Luke… - 2005 - ipl.econ.duke.edu
ABSTRACT This paper exploits a unique setting-tea estates in the South Indian High Range-
to provide empirical support for the view that sustained economic empowerment can lead to
social and economic change in even the the most disadvantaged sections of society. ...
K Chay… - 2011 - econ.brown.edu
Abstract We find that African-Americans in the South responded collectively to political and
economic opportunities after the Civil War, but only in places where strong social ties
emerged as an unintended consequence of the antebellum organization of production. ...
[CITATION] Marriage and Health Risk in Africa: A Study of the Luo of Western Kenya
N Luke… - 2002
K Munshi - 2006 - old.ccer.edu.cn
Abstract In India, as in many developing countries, entrepreneurship has been traditionally
concentrated in the hands of a few communities. As these countries globalize, a very
relevant concern is that business will continue to be controlled by these small groups, with ...
K Munshi - Journal of Economic Literature, 2011 - ingentaconnect.com
Abstract: Kaivan Munshi of Brown University reviews" Heroes and Cowards: The Social
Face of War" by Dora L. Costa and Matthew E. Kahn. The EconLit Abstract of the reviewed
work begins" Explores the effect of peers on people's behavior, drawing upon the life ...
K Munshi - 2007 - siteresources.worldbank.org
Abstract This paper traces the transition into entrepreneurship in a historically
disadvantaged community over a thirty year period. Empirical support is provided for the role
played by a new communitybased network in bringing entrepreneurs with increasingly ...
K Munshi… - 2005 - ipl.econ.duke.edu
ABSTRACT Our objective in this paper is to explain two common features of the
development experience: that individuals often respond very slowly to external interventions,
and that there is typically wide variation in the response across communities to the same ...
K Munshi… - 2007 - nber.org
Abstract This paper draws a connection between ethnic labor market networks in the
American Midwest when it was first being settled, the local identity or attachment to place
that emerged endogenously to support these networks, and occupational mobility today. ...
K Munshi… - 2010 - economics.stanford.edu
Abstract This paper investigates the role played by identity, or a sense of belonging to a
home community, in determining occupational choice and mobility. The analysis links
competition between migrant networks in the Midwest when it was first developing, and ...
K Munshi… - 2010 - public.econ.duke.edu
Abstract This paper investigates the role played by a cultural trait–identity–in determining
occupational choice and mobility. The analysis links competition between migrant networks
in the Midwest when it was first developing and the community identity that emerged ...
K Munshi… - Department of Economics Working Papers, 2010 - econ.brown.edu
Abstract This paper examines the role played by identity, or a sense of belonging to a home
community, in determining occupational choice and mobility. The analysis links competition
between migrant networks in the Midwest when it was first developing, and the in-group ...
K Munshi - Handbook of Social Economics, 2011 - mendeley.com
Abstract The past decade has witnessed a surge of interest in the economic analysis of
networks. This chapter is concerned with the role played by labor and credit networks in
shaping economic activity in developing countries. The problem of identifying network ...
KD Munshi - 1995 - en.scientificcommons.org
K Munshi… - 2010 - Citeseer
Abstract This paper assesses the role of caste in Indian local politics. We test the hypothesis
that the caste can discipline its members to overcome political commitment problems and
examine the consequences of caste discipline for the distribution of public goods within ...
K Munshi… - 2011 - 128.138.129.98
Abstract This paper examines the role played by local identity, or the attachment to a
hometown, in restricting occupational choice and mobility. Providing economic foundations
at the community level for this deviation from individual self-interest, the analysis links ...
N Luke… - 2006 - econ.brown.edu
Abstract The market distortions associated with India's caste-based affirmative action
program are well understood. However, the potential problem with income transfers as an
alternative mechanism to reduce inequality is that the low caste recipients might have little ...
AV Banerjee, KD Munshi - 1995 - dspace.mit.edu
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[CITATION] Redes en la Economía Moderna: Emigrantes Mexicanos en el mercado laboral de Estados Unidos
K Munshi - Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2003
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