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
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
Portfolio Diversification Across Currencies, Jorge Braga de Macedo
Portuguese Currency Experience: An Historical Perspective, Jorge Braga de Macedo
An Economic Analysis of the Extended Family in a Less Developed Country: The Demand for the Elderly in an Uncertain Environment, Mark Rosenzweig and Kenneth Wolpin
Effective Protection and the Distribution of Personal Income by Sector in Colombia, T. Paul Schultz
Size of Households and Income Disparities, Simon Kuznets
An Economic Approach to Birth-Order Effects, Nancy Birdsall
International Trade and Income Distribution: A Reconsideration, Paul Krugman
The Reemergence of the Purchasing Power Parity Doctrine in the 1970’s, Louka Katseli-Papaefstratiou
Trade, Accumulation, and Uneven Development, Paul Krugman
Life-Cycle Labor Supply and Fertility: Causal Inferences from Household Models, Mark Rosenzweig and Kenneth Wolpin Wolpin
Equity Oriented Fiscal Programs, John C. H. Fei
Lifetime Migration in Colombia: Tests of the Expected Income Hypothesis, Gary S. Fields
Nutrition, Work, and Demographic Behavior in Rural Philippine Households: A Synopsisof Several Laguna Household Studies, Robert Evenson, Barry M. Popkin, and Elizabeth King-Quizon
Production and Distribution in Agrarian Economies, Gerald David Jaynes
Papers from 1978
A Cost of Siblings: Child Schooling in Urban Colombia, Nancy Birdsall
Transmission of External Price Disturbances and the Composition of Trade, Louka Katseli-Papaefstratiou
Dualism in LDC Manufacturing: A Case Study, Mary Ann Baily
Enlargement of the European Community and the Common Agricultural Policy, Louka Katseli- Papaefstratiou
Exchange Rate Policy for Developing Countries, William Branson and Louka Katseli-Papaefstratiou
The Impact of Greece’s Entry into the EEC on Greek- American Economic Relations, Louka Katseli- Papaefstratiou
The Public Granary Institution of the Ch’ing Dynasty, 1644-1911, Ts-ui-jung Liu and John C. H. Fei
Educational Subsidy, Agricultural Development and Fertility Change, Mark Rosenzweig
The Less Developed Countries and Transnational Enterprises, Carlos F. Diaz-Alejandro
A Century of Productivity Change in U.S. Agriculture: An Analysis of the Role of Invention, Research and Extension, Robert Evenson
Firm and Market Size, Factor Productivity and Industrial Concentration in Mexico, Manuel Gollas