The broad objectives of theoretical and empirical research at the Economic Growth Center are to understand the process of economic development and growth as well as the associated changes in economic structure. In particular, an understanding of how policies affect that process is necessary for suggesting policies for promoting development. The research is founded on relevant economic theory (micro and macro) and econometric tools. Empirical studies rely on cross-sectional and intertemporal data on micro decision-making units, such as individuals and households, and aggregates, such as nations, interpreted within suitable economic, demographic, and social frameworks. An increasing share of the research involves the study of the behavior of persons, households, and firms, as revealed in sample surveys, and applies the tools of microeconomic theory and associated statistical tools. EGC Discussion Papers report the results of the research efforts of Center members.
EGC faculty, visiting research faculty associated with the EGC and Ph.D. students on the job market wishing to submit a paper to the series should email a completed submission form with the paper to egc[at]yale.edu.
Note to Graduate Students: For graduate students interested in posting papers, use the Munich Personal RePEc Archive (MPRA) repository. More information about creating an account and submitting papers can be found on the MPRA home page. The Yale University listing of papers posted to MPRA can be found on this page.Papers from 1982
Cross-Sectional Methods for Estimating the Replacement of Infant Deaths, Randall Olsen
Endogenous Fertility in an Overlapping Generations Growth Model, Zvi Eckstein and Kenneth Wolpin
Exchange Rate Flexibility and Intervention Policy in the Philippines, 1973-1981, Filologo Pante Jr.
Fertility and Savings in a Two-Period Household Model: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, Anil Deolalikar
Incorporating the Distribution of Income and the Duration of Life into a Measure of Economic Growth: Some New Suggestions, Jacques Silber
International Invention: Implications for Technology Market Analysis, Robert Evenson
Optimal and Time Consistent Exchange Rate Management in an Overlapping Generations Economy, Jonathan Eaton
Technology Production and Technology Purchase in Indian Industry: An Econometric Analysis, Anil Deolalikar and Robert Evenson
Farm Household Production: Demand for Wife’s Labor, Capital Services and the Capital-Labor Ratio, Wallace Huffman and Mark D. Lange
Short Run Fluctuations in Fertility and Mortality in Preindustrial Sweden, Zvi Eckstein, T. Paul Schultz, and Kenneth Wolpin
The Heterogeneity of Family and Hired Labor in Agricultural Production: A Test Using District- Level Data fromIndia, Anil Deolalikar and Wim Vijverberg
Uncertain Lifetime and the Welfare Enhancing Properties of Annuity Markets and Social Security, Zvi Eckstein, Martin Eichenbaum, and Dan Peled
Latin America in the 1930s, Carlos F. Diaz-Alejandro
Life Under Pressure: Questions for a Comparative History of Economy and Demography in France and England, 1670-1870, David R. Weir
Real Exchange Rates in the 1970s, Louka T. Katseli
Taxation and Corporate Dividend Behaviour in India, J. V. M. Sarma
Taxation and Dividends in India: A Review (1974-1977), J. V. M. Sarma
Country Risk: Economic Aspects, Jonathan Eaton and Mark Gersovitz
On Immiserizing Transfers and Immiserizing Growth, T. N. Srinivasan
Wage-Price Behavior Under External Price Shocks and Productivity Slowdown: A U.S.-Japan Comparison, Ching-yuan Lin
International Factor Movements, Commodity Trade and Commercial Policy, T. N. Srinivasan
Japanese Financial Development in Historical Perspective, 1968-1980, Hugh T. Patrick
Discrete Choices in a Continuous Time Model: Lifecycle Time Allocation and Fertility Decisions, Wim Vijverberg
Japanese Direct Foreign Investment: Studies on Its Growth in the 1970’s, Makoto Sakurai
The 1940s in Latin America, Carlos F. Diaz-Alejandro
Wage Growth, Family Labor Supply and the Distribution of Potential Family Earnings, David M. Blau
A Theory of Expropriation and Deviations from Perfect Capital Mobility, Jonathan Eaton and Mark Gersovitz
No Less Than One Hundred Years of Argentine Economic History, Plus Some Comparisons, Carlos F. Diaz-Alejandro
Trade, Development and Factor Movements, T. N. Srinivasan
Papers from 1981
Open Economy, Closed Polity?, Carlos F. Diaz-Alejandro
Covered Interest Parity, Uncovered Interest Parity, and Exchange Rate Dynamics, Jonathan Eaton and Stephen Turnovsky
Age of Individuals and Family Composition as Factors Underlying the Distribution of Personal Income, T. Paul Schultz
Effects of Monetary Disturbances on Exchange Rates with Risk Averse Speculation, Jonathan Eaton and Stephen Turnovsky
Exchange Rates and Food in the European Community, Louka T. Katseli
Exchange Risk, Political risk and Macroeconomic Equilibrium, Jonathan Eaton and Stephen Turnovsky
Lewis and the Classicists, Gustav Ranis and John C. H. Fei
The Political Economy of United States-Japan Trade in Steel, Hugh Patrick and Hideo Sato
Evaluation of the Olsen Technique for Estimating the Fertility Response to Child Mortality, James Trussell and Randall Olsen
Rational Expectations Modeling of Agricultural Supply, Zvi . Eckstein
Child Mortality and Fertility in Columbia: Individual and Community Effects, Mark Rosenzweig and T. Paul Schultz
Children and Adults in the Income Distribution, Simon Kuznets
Fertility, Child Schooling, and Exogenous Mortality: A Waiting Time Regression with Dynamic Regressors, Randall Olsen and Kenneth Wolpin
The Economic Role of Commodity Storage, Brian D. Wright and Jeffrey Williams
Currency Baskets and Real Effective Exchange Rates, William Branson and Louka T. Katseli
Food Security: Indian Perspective, T. N. Srinivasan
Macroeconomic Adjustment and Exchange Rate Policy in Middle Income Countries: Greece, Portugal and Spain in the 1970’s, Louka T. Katseli
Stories of the 1930s for the 1980s, Carlos F. Diaz-Alejandro
The Welfare Consequences of Directly-Unproductive Profit- Seeking (DUP) Activities: Price Versus Quality Distortions, Jagdish Bhagwati and T. N. Srinivasan
Investment in Child Nutrition and Women’s Allocation of Time in Developing Countries, David M. Blau
Credit and Sharecropping in Agrarian Societies, Avishay Braverman and T. N. Srinivasan
Specification Biases in Estimating the Influence of Child Mortality on Fertility, Bun Song Lee and T. Paul Schultz
The Asian-Pacific Context of United States-China Economic Relations, Hugh T. Patrick
Basic Needs, Distribution and Growth: The Beginnings of a Framework, Gustav Ranis
Financial Markets: A View from the Semi- Periphery, Edmar Lisboa Bacha and Carlos F. Diaz-Alejandro
Income Distribution in Buenos Aires, Hector Dieguez and Alberto Petrecolla
Trade Flows and Factor Mobility, Louka Katseli-Papaefstratiou
Papers from 1980
Rational Expectations, Inventories and Price Fluctuations, Sudhakar Aiyagari, Zvi Eckstein, and Martin Eichenbaum
Female Labor Force Participation in Urban Japan: A Trichotomous Logit Model, M. Anne Hill
Inducements to Public Research: Rice and Wheat in India, Keijiro Otsuka
Adjustment to Variations in Imported Input Prices: The Role of Economic Structure, Louka Katseli-Papaefstratiou and Nancy Peregrim Marion
Challenges and Opportunities Posed by Asia’s Super Exporters: Implications for Manufactured Exports from Latin America, Gustav Ranis
Estimating Labor Demand Functions for Indian Agriculture, Robert Evenson and Hans Binswanger
Factor and Output Market Effects of Technical Change and Public Investment Policies in Agriculture, Hans Binswanger and Jaime B. Quizon
The Price of Local Amenities: Theory and Measurement, Jennifer Roback
Governmental Interventions and Household Behavior in Developing Countries: Anticipating the Unanticipated Consequences of Social Programs, Mark Rosenzweig and Kenneth Wolpin
Migrant and Native Fertility in Colombia in 1973: Migrants Selected According to Their Reproductive Preferences?, Helena Ribe and T. Paul Schultz
Birthweight, the Production of Child Health, and Input Demand, Mark Rosenzweig and T. Paul Schultz
Determinants of Age at Marriage in Malaysia and Japan, Kathryn Anderson and M. Anne Hill
Of Patriarchy Born: The Political Economy of Fertility Decisions, Nancy Folbre
The Resource Allocation Problem in Research and Development, Brian D. Wright
Marriage and Labor Market Discrimination in Japan, Kathryn Anderson and M. Anne Hill
The Postwar Economic History of Japan, Hugh T. Patrick
A New Test of the Permanent Income Hypothesis: The Impact of Weather on the Income and Consumption of Farm Households in India, Kenneth Wolpin
Exchange Rates and Terms of Trade in the Argentine Republic 1913-1976, Carlos F. Diaz-Alejandro
Flexible Consumer Demand System with Linear Estimation Equations Food Demand in India, Gurushri Swamy and Hans Binswanger
Inequality in the Size Distribution of Households: Differences and Trends, Simon Kuznets
Latin America in Depression, 1929-1939, Carlos F. Diaz-Alejandro
Market Opportunities, Genetic Endowments and the IntraFamily Distribution of Resources: Child Survival in Rural India, Mark Rosenzweig and T. Paul Schultz
Size of Households and Income Disparities, Simon Kuznets
The Estimation of Wage Elasticities in Fertility Demand Equations, Kathryn Anderson
The Evolution of Japan’s Financial System in the Interwar Period, Hugh T. Patrick
Employment and Income Distribution Constraints in Latin America, Gustav Ranis
Estimating the Effect of Child Mortality on the Number of Births, Randall Olsen
The Influence of the Urban Informal Sector on Economic Inequality, Victor Tokman
Charity, Taxation and Distribution Weights in Benefit- Cost Analysis, Peter G. Warr
The Growth and Decline of Chinese Family Clan, John C. H Fei and Ts-ui-jung Liu
Papers from 1979
Determination of Fertility, Child Quality, and Child Survival in Guatemala, Kathryn H. Anderson
The Isolation Paradox and the Discount Rate of Benefit- Cost Analysis, Peter G. Warr and Brian Wright
An Empirical Verification of Keesings’ Hypothesis- Skill Intensity of Exports and Import Replacement in India, Shariff Mohammad
Factor Substitution Possibilities in Indian Manufacturing Industries, Shariff Mohammad
Southern Cone Stabilization Plans, Carlos F. Diaz-Alejandro
The Cost of Aggregate Energy Conservation, Brian D. Wright
The Economic Consequences of the April 25th Revolution, Paul Krugman and Jorge Braga de Macedo
Trade, Growth and Income Redistribution: A Case Study of India, Sariff Mohammad
Exchange Rates in Portugal 1973-1978: A Portfolio Model of an Inconvertible Currency, Jorge Braga de Macedo
Foreign Exchange Market ‘Efficiency’ and Currency Inconvertibility: The Case of the Portuguese Escudo Against the U.S.Dollar 1973-78, Jorge Bragade Macedo
Monetarist Models of Exchange Rate Determination: Evidence from Portugal 1973-78, Jorge Braga de Macedo
Shadow Pricing Rules for Non-Traded Commodities, Peter G. Warr
Exchange Rate Behavior with Currency Inconvertibility, Jorge Braga de Macedo
Interpretation of Relations Among Morality, Economics of the Household, and the Health Environment, T. Paul Schultz