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A simple model of herd behavior

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AV Banerjee - The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1992 - qje.oxfordjournals.org
Page 1. THE QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS Vol. CVII August 1992 Issue
3 A SIMPLE MODEL OF HERD BEHAVIOR* ABHIJIT V. BANERJEE We analyze
a sequential decision model in which each decision maker ...
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Occupational choice and the process of development

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AV Banerjee… - Journal of political economy, 1993 - JSTOR
Page 1. Occupational Choice and the Process of Development Abhijit V. Banerjee
Harvard University Andrew F. Newman Northwestern University This paper models
economic development as a process of institu- tional transformation ...
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Inequality and growth: What can the data say?

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AV Banerjee… - 2000 - nber.org
Page 1. NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES INEQUALITY AND GROWTH: WHAT CAN
THE DATA SAY? Abhijit V. Banerjee Esther Duflo Working Paper 7793 http://www.
nber.org/papers/w7793 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC ...
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Currency crises and monetary policy in an economy with credit constraints

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P Aghion, P Bacchetta… - European economic review, 2001 - Elsevier
This paper presents a simple model of currency crises which is driven by the interplay
between the credit constraints of private domestic firms and the existence of nominal price
rigidities. The possibility of multiple equilibria, including a 'currency crisis' equilibrium with ...
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Thy neighbor's keeper: The design of a credit cooperative with theory and a test

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AV Banerjee, T Besley… - The Quarterly Journal of …, 1994 - qje.oxfordjournals.org
Page 1. THY NEIGHBOR'S KEEPER: THE DESIGN OF A CREDIT COOPERATIVE
WITH THEORY AND A TEST* ABHIJIT V. BANERJEE TIMOTHY BESLEY TIMOTHY
W. GUINNANE Economists now appreciate that resource ...
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History, institutions and economic performance: the legacy of colonial land tenure systems in India

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A Banerjee… - 2002 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: Do historical institutions have a persistent impact on economic performance? We
analyze the colonial institutions set up by the British to collect land revenue in India, and
show that differences in historical property rights institutions lead to sustained differences ...
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[HTML] The economic lives of the poor

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AV Banerjee… - The journal of economic perspectives: a …, 2007 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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A theory of misgovernance

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AV Banerjee - The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1997 - qje.oxfordjournals.org
Page 1. A THEORY OF MISGOVERNANCE* ABHIJIT V. BANERJEE This paper tries
to explain why government bureaucracies are often associ- ated with red tape,
corruption, and lack of incentives. The paper identifies two specific ...
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Growth theory through the lens of development economics

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AV Banerjee… - Handbook of economic growth, 2005 - Elsevier
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Reputation effects and the limits of contracting: A study of the Indian software industry

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AV Banerjee… - The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2000 - qje.oxfordjournals.org
Page 1. REPUTATION EFFECTS AND THE LIMITS OF CONTRACTING: A STUDY OF THE INDIAN
SOFTWARE INDUSTRY* ABHIJIT V. BANERJEE AND ESTHER DUFLO This paper examines
evidence of the role that reputation plays in determining contractual outcomes. ...
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A simple model of monetary policy and currency crises

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P Aghion, P Bacchetta… - European economic review, 2000 - Elsevier
This paper analyzes the optimal interest rate policy in currency crises. Firms are credit
constrained and have debt in domestic and foreign currency, a situation that may easily lead
to a currency crisis. An interest rate increase has an ambiguous effect on firms since it ...
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Empowerment and efficiency: tenancy reform in West Bengal

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AV Banerjee, PJ Gertler… - Journal of Political Economy, 2002 - JSTOR
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Dualism and macroeconomic volatility

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P Aghion, A Banerjee… - The Quarterly Journal of …, 1999 - qje.oxfordjournals.org
Abstract This paper develops a simple macroeconomic model that shows that combining
capital market imperfections together with unequal access to investment opportunities
across individuals can generate endogenous and permanent fluctuations in aggregate ...
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Risk-bearing and the theory of income distribution

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AV Banerjee… - The Review of Economic …, 1991 - restud.oxfordjournals.org
Page 1. Review of Economic Studies (1991) 58, 211-235 © 1991 The Review of
Economic Studies Limited 0034-6527/91/00150211$02.00 Risk-Bearing and the
Theory of Income Distribution ABHIJIT V. BANERJEE Princeton ...
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A corporate balance-sheet approach to currency crises

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P Aghion, P Bacchetta… - Journal of Economic theory, 2004 - Elsevier
This paper presents a general equilibrium currency crisis model of the 'third generation', in
which the possibility of currency crises is driven by the interplay between private firms' credit-
constraints and nominal price rigidities. Despite our emphasis on microfoundations, the ...
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Volatility and growth: Credit constraints and productivity-enhancing investment

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P Aghion, GM Angeletos, A Banerjee… - 2005 - nber.org
We examine how credit constraints affect the cyclical behavior of productivity-enhancing
investment and thereby volatility and growth. We first develop a simple growth model where
firms engage in two types of investment: a short-term one and a long-term productivity- ...
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Word-of-mouth learning

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A Banerjee… - Games and Economic Behavior, 2004 - Elsevier
This paper analyzes a model of rational word-of-mouth learning, in which successive
generations of agents make once-and-for-all choices between two alternatives. Before
making a decision, each new agent samples N old ones and asks them which choice they ...
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Do firms want to borrow more? Testing credit constraints using a directed lending program

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A Banerjee… - 2002 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: This paper uses variation in access to a targeted lending program to estimate
whether firms are credit constrained. The basic idea is that while both constrained and
unconstrained firms may be willing to absorb all the directed credit that they can get ( ...
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Financial development and the instability of open economies

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P Aghion, P Bacchetta… - Journal of Monetary Economics, 2004 - Elsevier
This paper introduces a framework for analyzing the role of financial factors as a source of
instability in small open economies. Our basic model is a dynamic open economy model
with a tradeable good produced with capital and a country-specific factor. We also assume ...
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[PDF] The Miracle of Microfinance?: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation

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AV Banerjee, E Duflo, R Glennerster… - 2009 - ipl.econ.duke.edu
... EVIDENCE FROM A RANDOMIZED EVALUATION ABHIJIT BANERJEE ESTHER DUFLO
RACHEL GLENNERSTER ... Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development ©
Copyright 2010 Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Rachel Glennerster, and Cynthia Kinnan Page ...
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The economics of rumours

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AV Banerjee - The Review of Economic Studies, 1993 - restud.oxfordjournals.org
Page 1. Review of Economic Studies (1993) 60, 309-327 (C) 1993 The Review of
Economic Studies Limited 0034-6527/93/00150309$02.00 The Economics of
Rumours ABHIJIT V. BANERJEE Harvard University First version ...
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Information, the dual economy, and development

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AV Banerjee… - Review of Economic Studies, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
Page 1. Review of Economic Studies (1999) 65, 631–653 0034-65279800290631$02.00 © 1998
The Review of Economic Studies Limited Information, the Dual Economy, and Development
ABHIJIT V. BANERJEE MIT and ANDREW F. NEWMAN Columbia University ...
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The political economy of public goods: Some evidence from India

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A Banerjee… - Journal of Development Economics, 2007 - Elsevier
We are interested in how public goods get allocated by a centralized state. We use data on
public goods and social structure from parliamentary constituencies in rural India to
understand the allocation of these goods over the 1970s and 1980s. National policies and ...
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Poverty, incentives, and development

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AV Banerjee… - The American economic review, 1994 - JSTOR
Page 1. POVERTYAND WELL- BEING IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIESt Poverty, Incentives, and
Development By ABHIJIT V. BANERJEE AND ANDREW F. NEWMAN* Poverty matters to positive
economics be- cause it transforms the way the entire econ- omy works. ...
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[HTML] Addressing absence

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A Banerjee… - The journal of economic perspectives: a …, 2006 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Absent providers are a major problem both for public health facilities and primary schools in
many developing countries. The paper by Chaudhury and others in this issue provides new
and systematic evidence on the rates of absenteeism based on surveys of absence rates ...
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Top Indian Incomes, 1922–2000

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A Banerjee… - The World Bank Economic Review, 2005 - World Bank
Abstract This article presents data on the evolution of top incomes and wages for 1922–
2000 in India using individual tax return data. The data show that the shares of the top 0.01
percent, 0.1 percent, and 1 percent in total income shrank substantially from the 1950s to ...
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Contracting constraints, credit markets and economic development

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A Banerjee - 2002 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: This paper begins by summarizing the micro-evidence on credit markets from a
large number of studies from all over the world, with the goal of identifying a number of
stylized facts. We argue that, in particular, the evidence strongly suggests that for poor ...
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How efficiently is capital allocated? Evidence from the knitted garment industry in Tirupur

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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 ...
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[PDF] Social Securityr

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AA Aaron, A Banerjee, N Barr… - The American …, 2004 - econ.upenn.edu
I frequently find economists who express a view of the system that is very far from mine. For
example, many young economists and economics students say that they expect to get no
benefits at all from Social Security. This expectation does not seem sensible to me. If there ...
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[HTML] HEALTH, HEALTH CARE, AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: Wealth, Health, and Health Services in Rural Rajasthan

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A Banerjee, A Deaton… - The American economic review, 2004 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
What are the determinants of health and of well-being? Income and wealth are clearly part of
the story, but does access to health care have a large independent effect, as the advocates
of more investment in health care, such as the World Health Organization's Commission ...
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[PDF] Inequality, control rights, and rent seeking: sugar cooperatives in Maharashtra

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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, ...
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[BOOK] Making aid work

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AV Banerjee - 2007 - books.google.com
... II Page 24. Forum Ian Goldin, F. Halsey Rogers, and Nicholas Stern Page 25. As Abhijit
Banerjee explains, randomized experiments solve a major problem: how to cleanly
identify the effects of a given development program or project. ...
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The experimental approach to development economics

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AV Banerjee… - 2008 - nber.org
Page 1. NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH TO
DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS Abhijit V. Banerjee Esther Duflo Working Paper 14467
http://www.nber.org/papers/w14467 NATIONAL BUREAU ...
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History, social divisions, and public goods in rural india

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A Banerjee, L Iyer… - Journal of the European …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract We examine the influence of three historically important sources of social divisions
on the availability of public goods in rural India: colonial power, landowner-peasant relations
as determined by the land tenure system and social fragmentation based on the Hindu ...
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[BOOK] Volatility and growth

P Aghion… - 2005 - books.google.com
Page 1. 'Clarendon Lectures in Ecorronzirs Philippe Aghion and Abhijit Banerjee VOLATILITY
AND GROWTH Page 2. ... Page 3. Volatility and Growth Page 4. This page intentionally left blank
Page 5. Volatility and Growth PHILLIPPE AGHION and ABHIJIT BANERJEE 1 Page 6. ...
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A global survey of hydrogen energy research, development and policy

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BD Solomon… - Energy policy, 2006 - Elsevier
Several factors have led to growing interest in a hydrogen energy economy, especially for
transportation. A successful transition to a major role for hydrogen will require much greater
cost-effectiveness, fueling infrastructure, consumer acceptance, and a strategy for its basis ...
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A Walrasian theory of money and barter

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AV Banerjee… - The Quarterly Journal of …, 1996 - qje.oxfordjournals.org
Page 1. THE QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS Vol. CXI November 1996
Issue 4 A WALRASIAN THEORY OF MONEY AND BARTER* ABHIJIT V. BANERJEE
AND ERIC S. MASKIN We study a barter economy in which ...
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Eco-labeling for energy efficiency and sustainability: a meta-evaluation of US programs

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A Banerjee… - Energy Policy, 2003 - Elsevier
Eco-labeling is a promising market-based approach for improving the environmental
performance of products through consumer choice. While eco-labeling itself is not new, eco-
labeling to promote energy efficiency or sustainability is a more recent phenomenon. Five ...
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Why has unemployment risen in the new South Africa

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A Banerjee, SF Galiani, JA Levinsohn, Z McLaren… - 2007 - nber.org
We document the rise in unemployment in South Africa since the transition in 1994. We
describe the likely causes of this increase and analyze whether the increase in
unemployment is due to structural changes in the economy (resulting in a new equilibrium ...
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[HTML] What is middle class about the middle classes around the world?

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AV Banerjee… - The journal of economic perspectives: a …, 2008 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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A simple model of voice

A Banerjee… - Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2001 - JSTOR
We think of voice as a means of information aggregation within groups operating in a variety
of settings. We explore how the characteristics of groups and their leaders influence voice. In
relatively homogeneous groups, members farthest away from the leader have the best ...
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[CITATION] On frequent flyer programs and other loyalty-inducing economic arrangements

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Health care delivery in rural Rajasthan

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A Banerjee, A Deaton… - Economic and Political Weekly, 2004 - JSTOR
This paper reports on a survey conducted in rural Udaipur to gauge the delivery of health
care and the impact it has on the health status of the largely poor population of the region.
The study shows that the quality of public service is extremely low and that unqualified ...
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[CITATION] Volatility and growth: Financial development and the cyclical composition of investment

P Aghion, GM Angeletos, A Banerjee… - NBER Working paper, 2004
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[CITATION] Evolutionary selection and rational behavior

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Empowerment and efficiency: The economics of agrarian reform

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A Banerjee, P Gertler… - 1999 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: We analyze the effect of agricultural tenancy laws that offer security of tenure to
tenants and regulate the share of output they should pay the landlord as rent on farm
productivity. Theoretically, the net impact of tenancy reform is shown to be a combination ...
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Land reforms: prospects and strategies

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A Banerjee - 1999 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: The paper is in two parts. The first part tries to understand the case for redistributive
land reforms. We argue that there is relatively persuasive evidence showing that
redistributing land may promote equity as well as efficiency. We then suggest that it is, ...
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Pitfalls of participatory programs: Evidence from a randomized evaluation in education in India

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A Banerjee, R Banerji, E Duflo, R Glennerster… - 2008 - nber.org
Participation of beneficiaries in the monitoring of public services is increasingly seen as a
key to improving their efficiency. In India, the current government flagship program on
universal primary education organizes both locally elected leaders and parents of children ...
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Long run health impacts of income shocks: Wine and phylloxera in 19th century France

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A Banerjee, E Duflo, G Postel-Vinay… - 2007 - nber.org
This paper provides estimates of the long-term effects on height and health of a large
income shock experienced in early childhood. Phylloxera, an insect that attacks the roots of
grape vines, destroyed 40% of French vineyards between 1863 and 1890, causing major ...
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[PDF] Remedying Education: Evidence from two randomized experiments in India

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A Banerjee, S Cole, E Duflo… - … , MA. Available on line at http: …, 2004 - cep.lse.ac.uk
Abstract This paper presents the results of two overlapping two-year randomized
evaluations conducted in Mumbai and Vadodara, India, designed to evaluate ways to
improve the quality of education in urban slums. A remedial education program hires ...
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[PDF] Caste, community and collective action: The political economy of public good provision in india

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A Banerjee… - Unpublished manuscript, 2001 - time.dufe.edu.cn
One of the abiding puzzles in development economics is the remarkable failure of third
world governments to deliver public goods to their people. 1 In 1995, only 13% of the people
in Cambodia, 34% in Uganda and 60% in Pakistan had access to safe drinking water. 2 ...
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Volatility and growth: Credit constraints and the composition of investment

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P Aghion, GM Angeletos, A Banerjee… - Journal of Monetary …, 2010 - Elsevier
How does uncertainty and credit constraints affect the cyclical composition of investment and
thereby volatility and growth? This paper addresses this question within a model where firms
engage in two types of investment: a short-term one; and a long-term one, which ...
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The shape of temptation: Implications for the economic lives of the poor

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A Banerjee… - 2010 - nber.org
This paper argues that the relation between temptations and the level of consumption plays
a key role in explaining the observed behaviors of the poor. Temptation goods are defined to
be the set of goods that generate positive utility for the self that consumes them, but not for ...
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[PDF] Bank financing in India

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A Banerjee, S Cole… - Photocopy. Department of Economics …, 2003 - people.hbs.edu
The Indian banking sector has been remarkably successful in some respects. Its immense
size and enormous penetration in rural areas are exemplary among developing countries,
as is its solid reputation for stability among depositors. The penetration in rural areas has ...
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[BOOK] Understanding poverty

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AV Banerjee, R Bénabou… - 2006 - books.google.com
Page 1. Understanding Poverty Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee Roland Benabou Dilip Mookherjee,
Editors OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Page 2. Understanding Poverty Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee
Roland Bénabou Dilip Mookherjee, Editors OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Page 3. ...
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[BOOK] Poor economics: a radical rethinking of the way to fight global poverty

E Duflo… - 2011 - books.google.com
Billions of government dollars, and thousands of charitable organizations and NGOs, are
dedicated to helping the world's poor. But much of their work is based on assumptions that
are untested generalizations at best, harmful misperceptions at worst. Abhijit Banerjee ...
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[BOOK] Financial liberalization and volatility in emerging market economies

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P Aghion, P Bacchetta, A Banerjee… - 1998 - hec.unil.ch
Abstract The recent East Asian crisis has highlighted the relationship between… nancial
development and output volatility. In this essay we develop a simple model of a small open
economy producing a tradeable good using a non-tradeable input and where… rms ...
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Educational Policy and the Economics of the Family

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AV Banerjee - Journal of Development Economics, 2004 - Elsevier
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[BOOK] Parochial politics: Ethnic preferences and politician corruption

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A Banerjee, R Pande… - 2007 - nber.org
Abstract This paper examines how increased voter ethnicization, defined as a greater
preference for the party representing one's ethnic group, affects politician quality. If politics is
characterized by incomplete policy commitment, then ethnicization reduces average ...
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Public action for public goods

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A Banerjee, L Iyer… - Handbook of Development Economics, 2007 - Elsevier
Abstract This paper focuses on the relationship between public action and access to public
goods. It begins by developing a simple model to capture the various mechanisms that are
discussed in the theoretical literature on collective action. We use the model to illustrate ...
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Marry for what: caste and mate selection in modern India

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A Banerjee, E Duflo, M Ghatak… - 2009 - nber.org
This paper studies the role played by caste, education and other social and economic
attributes in arranged marriages among middle-class Indians. We use a unique data set on
individuals who placed matrimonial advertisements in a major newspaper, the responses ...
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The uses of economic theory: Against a purely positive interpretation of theoretical results

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A Banerjee - 2002 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: Economists are excessively influenced by the so-called positive economics view,
which says that economists should only describe and not prescribe. Here I argue that this
view is flawed because it makes unreasonably strong assumptions about what players ( ...
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3 The Two Poverties

AV Banerjee - Insurance against poverty, 2005 - books.google.com
Page 79. 3 The Two Poverties ABHIJIT V. BANERJEE 3.1 INTRODUCTION Are the
poor just like you and me except in that they have less money, to invert Hemingway's
famous line? Or is it useful to think of them as being subject ...
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Eviction threats and investment incentives

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AV Banerjee… - Journal of Development Economics, 2004 - Elsevier
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The (mis) allocation of capital

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AV Banerjee, E Duflo… - Journal of the European …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Page 1. THE (MIS)ALLOCATION OF CAPITAL Abhijit V. Banerjee Massachusetts
Institute of Technology Esther Duflo Massachusetts Institute of Technology Kaivan
Munshi University of Pennsylvania Abstract Is capital allocated ...
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Strategy for economic reform in West Bengal

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A Banerjee, P Bardhan, K Basu… - Economic and Political …, 2002 - JSTOR
During the last two decades West Bengal has led the rest of the country with regard to
agricultural performance and implementation of panchayat institutions. But these
developments have begun to level out. At the same time the state has fallen behind in ...
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Pitfalls of Participatory Programs: Evidence from a randomized evaluation in education in India

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AV Banerjee, R Banerji, E Duflo… - American Economic …, 2010 - ingentaconnect.com
Page 1. 1 American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 2010, 2:1, 1–30
http://www.aeaweb.org/articles.php?doi=10.1257/pol.2.1.1 The deplorable state
of publicly provided social services in many developing coun- tries has ...
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Giving credit where it is due

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AV Banerjee… - The Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2010 - ingentaconnect.com
Page 1. Journal of Economic Perspectives—Volume 24, Number 3—Summer
2010—Pages 61–80 After a period of relative marginalization, development
economics has now reemerged into the mainstream of most economics ...
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[CITATION] Promoting school participation in rural Rajasthan: Results from some prospective trials

A Banerjee, S Jacob, M Kremer, J Lanjouw… - 2002 - working paper, MIT
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Putting a Band‐Aid on a corpse: Incentives for nurses in the Indian public health care system

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Page 1. PUTTING A BAND-AID ON A CORPSE: INCENTIVES FOR NURSES IN THE INDIAN
PUBLIC HEALTH CARE SYSTEM Abhijit V. Banerjee MIT and Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action
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Networks, migration and investment: Insiders and outsiders in Tirupur's production cluster

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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 ...
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[PDF] The miracle of microfinance

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A Banerjee, E Duflo… - Evidence from a …, 2009 - centre-for-microfinance.com
Abstract Microcredit has spread extremely rapidly since its beginnings in the late 1970s, but
whether and how much it helps the poor is the subject of intense debate. This paper reports
on the first randomized evaluation of the impact of introducing microcredit in a new market. ...
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Can information campaigns spark local participation and improve outcomes? A study of primary education in Uttar Pradesh, India

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Abstract: There is a growing belief in development policy circles that participation by local
communities in basic service delivery can promote development outcomes. A central plank
of public policy for improving primary education services in India is the participation of ...
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[CITATION] Do firms want to borrow more?

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[PDF] Inequality, Growth and Trade Policy

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If the world is often skeptical of what economists have to tell them about trade policy, it is at
least in part because they suspect that economists live in some cloud-cuckoo-land of
perfectly functioning markets and unlimited mobility. While this is broadly unfair, it is true ...
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Notes Towards a Theory of Industrialisation in the Developing World

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Economic theory tells us that in a world where markets are perfect and contractual
inefficiencies are absent, the location of industry is a function of resources, synergies,
transport costs and demand. In this paper we put forward the hypothesis that the location ...
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[PDF] Computer-assisted learning: Evidence from a randomized experiment

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L Linden, A Banerjee… - Poverty Action Lab Paper, 2003 - pratham.org
Abstract This note presents the results obtained after the first year of a two-year randomized
evaluation of a computer assisted learning (CAL) program in Vadodara, India. The CAL
program, implemented by a NGO, took advantage of the donation of four computers to ...
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Targeting the poor: evidence from a field experiment in Indonesia

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In developing countries, identifying the poor for redistribution or social insurance is
challenging because the government lacks information about people's incomes. This paper
reports the results of a field experiment conducted in 640 Indonesian villages that ...
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[CITATION] Are the rich growing richer: Evidence from Indian tax data

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Who is getting the public goods in India? some evidence and some speculation

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AV Banerjee - India's Emerging Economy, 2004 - books.google.com
Page 199. 8 Who Is Getting the Public Goods in India? Some Evidence and Some
Speculation Abhijit V. Banerjee The way one grows up in India, it has long been
known, depends on where one grows up. The average child ...
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Prospects and strategies for land reform.

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Redistributive land reform may promote both equity and efficiency. Implementing such reform
can be costly, however, and may not be the best way to achieve redistribution. If land redistribution
is to be implemented, it should be based on a uniform land ceiling that can be exceeded ...
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Why does misallocation persist?

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Page 1. 189 American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics 2010, 2:1, 189–206
http://www.aeaweb.org/articles.php?doi=10.1257/mac.2.1.189 There is growing interest
in the view that underdevelopment may not be just a matter ...
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[BOOK] Peer group externalities and learning incentives: A theory of nerd behavior

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AV Banerjee… - 1990 - econ.lse.ac.uk
Page 1. Peer Group Externalities and Learning Incentives: A Theory of Nerd Behavior
by Abhijit V. Banerjee Department of Economics Princeton University Princeton NJ
08544 and Timothy Besley Woodrow Wilson School Princeton ...
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'New Development Economics' and the Challenge to Theory

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... University of California, San Diego. 12 Abhijit Banerjee, Shawn Cole, Esther Duflo
and Leigh Linden (2004), 'Remedying Education: Evidence from Two Randomised
Experiments in India', mimeo, MIT. 13 For an example of ...
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The World Bank of the Future

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Abstract: This paper argues that the prima facie evidence suggests that the World Bank is
not particularly effective either in dealing with countries that default or in promoting
countries, projects and ideas that are likely to do well. We argue that this is probably ...
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Limited attention and income distribution

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Page 1. American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings 2008, 98:2, 489-493
http://www.aeaweb.org/articles.php?doi=10.1257/aer.98.2.489 Limited Attention and
Income Distribution By Abhijit V. Banerjee and Sendhil Mullainathan* ...
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[CITATION] Evolutionary selection with discriminating players

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[CITATION] An evaluation of World Bank research, 1998–2005

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Labor market discrimination in Delhi: Evidence from a field experiment

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We study the role of caste and religion in India's new economy sectors—software and call-
centers—by sending 3160 fictitious resumes in response to 371 job openings in and around
Delhi (India) that were advertised in major city papers and online job sites. We randomly ...
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[CITATION] Making aid work

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[PDF] The paradox of Indian growth: A comment on Kochhar et al.

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Page 1. THE PARADOX OF INDIAN GROWTH: A COMMENT ON KOCHAR ET AL Abhijit Vinayak
Banerjee The paradox of India's current success, we learn from Kochar et al., is that it is rooted
in what were once seen as some of its most egregious policy failures. ...
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Neutrally stable outcomes in cheap-talk coordination games

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This paper examines equilibrium and stability in symmetric two-player cheap-talk games
and specifically characterizes the set of neutrally stable outcomes in cheap-talk 2× 2
coordination games. With a finite message set, this set is finite. As the number of ...
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[CITATION] A simple model of herd behaviour

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[PDF] Climbing out of poverty: Long term decisions under income stress

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There is now a broad consensus that self# control problems are very important in
understanding diverse phenomena ranging from the economics of health clubs to the
demand for pension plans. This paper attempts to investigate in what ways thinking about ...
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[PDF] Do informed voters make better choices? experimental evidence from urban India

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Page 1. Do Informed Voters Make Better Choices? Experimental Evidence from Urban India Abhijit
V. Banerjee, Selvan Kumar, Rohini Pande and Felix Su ∗ November 11, 2011 Abstract In the
run-up to elections in a large Indian city, residents in a random sample of slums ...
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Beyond Nandigram: Industrialisation in West Bengal

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Page 1. Commentary Beyond Nandigram: Industrialisation in West Bengal If we are
to learn the right lessons from the tragedy of Nandigram, then we must ensure that
the government is involved in the land acquisition process ...
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[PDF] Inequality, Control Rights and Rent Seeking

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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 ...
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[CITATION] Big answers for big questions: the presumption of growth policy

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Corruption Chapter Full 17

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ABSTRACT In this paper, we provide a new framework for analyzing corruption in public
bureaucracies. The standard way to model corruption is as an example of moral hazard,
which then leads to a focus on better monitoring and stricter penalties with the eradication ...
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