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 1978
Japan’s Great Depression, Tuvia Blumenthal
The Early Establishment and Development of Banking in Japan: Phases and Policies 1872-1918, Juro Teranishi and Hugh T. Patrick
Productivity, Mechanization and Skills: A Test of the Hirschman-Lewis Hypothesis for Latin American Industry, Simon Teitel
Attitudes Towards Risk: Experimental Measurement in Rural India, Hans Binswanger
Attitudes Towards Risk: Implications for Economic and Psychological Theories of an Experiment in Rural India, Hans Binswanger
Fertility and Child Mortality over the Life Cycle: Aggregate and Individual Evidence, T. Paul Schultz
Government Credits, Demand and Supply of Deposits and the Development of Banking: A Theory and Test, Juro Teranishi
Notes on the Estimation of the Macro Economic Determinants of Migration, T. Paul Schultz
Progressive Taxes and the Effectiveness of Fiscal Policy, Louka Katseli-Papaefstratiou
Testing the Quantity-Quality Fertility Model: Results from a Natural Experiment, Mark Rosenzweig and Kenneth Wolpin
The Size and Growth of Industrial Firms in Mexico, Manuel Gollas
The Structure and Causes of Industrial Concentration in Mexico, Manuel Gollas
Factor Market Structure and Technology Choice in the Colombian Brick Industry, Mary Ann Baily
Income Distribution Effects of Technical Change: Some Analytical Issues, Hans Binswanger
Age, Biological Factors, and Socioeconomic of Fertility: New Measures of Cumulative Fertility for Use in theSocioeconomic Analysis of Family Size, Bryan Boulier and Mark Rosenzweig
Industrial Development in a Dual Society: The Indonesian Case, Nagatoshi Suzuki
Education and Contraceptive Choice: Conditional Logit and Structural Models, Mark Rosenzweig and Daniel Seiver
Income Instability, Terms of Trade and the Choice of Exchange Rate Regime, William Branson and Louka Katseli-Papaefstratiou
Technology Choice and Employment in Developing Countries:A Synthesis of Economic Growth Center Research, Gustav Ranis
Risk Attitudes of Rural Households in Semi-Arid Tropical India, Hans Binswanger
Papers from 1977
Poverty, Inequality, and the Measurement of Development Performance, Gary S. Fields
The Organization of Crop- and Animal-Improvement Research in the Low-Income Countries, Robert Evenson
Economic Value of Children in Rural India, M. T. R. Sarma
Neoclassical Theory and the Optimizing Peasant: An Econometric Analysis of Market Family Labor Supply, Mark Rosenzweig
Rural Wages, Labor Supply and Land Reform: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, Mark Rosenzweig
Science, Technology and Development: A Retrospective View, Gustav Ranis
Size and Age Structure of Family Households: Exploratory Comparisons, Simon Kuznets
A Conditional Logit Model of Internal Migration: Venezuelan Lifetime Migration Within Educational Strata, T. Paul Schultz
Income Inequality in Urban Colombia: A Decomposition Analysis, Gary S. Fields
Shadow Wages and Induced Migration, Christopher Heady
Equity with Growth in Taiwan: How ‘Special’ is the ‘Special Case’?, Gustav Ranis
Decomposing LDC Inequality, Gary S. Fields
Sources of Income Variation in Colombia: Personal and Regional Effects, Gary S. Fields and T. Paul Schultz
Recent Population Trends in Less Developed Countries and Implications for Internal Income Inequality, Simon Kuznets
An Engineering-Oriented Approach to the Adoption Technology, John C. H. Fei
Poverty, Inequality, and Development: Alleviation or Exacerbation?, Gary S. Fields
An Economic Interpretation of the Decline in Fertility in a Rapidly Developing Country: Consequences of Development and FamilyPlanning, T. Paul Schultz
Papers from 1976
International Markets for Exhaustible Resources, Less Developed Countries, and Transnational Corporations, Carlos F. Diaz-Alejandro
Prospects for Long-Run Productivity Growth in Japan, Hugh T. Patrick
A Welfare Economic Approach to Growth and Distribution in the Dual Economy, Gary Fields
Alternative Theories of Wages in Less Developed Countries: An Empirical Test, Christopher Heady
An Analysis of the Ch’ing Land Tax Burden, 1650- 1865, Ts’ui-Jung Liu and John C. H. Fei
Economic Development of Traditional China, John C. H. Fei
Intersectoral Wage Structure in Colombia, Gary S. Fields and Nohra deMarulanda
A Generalized Crawling-Peg Exchange-Rate System for a Small Open Inflationary Economy, Ana Martirena-Mantel
Regional Product Price Differences and the Sectoral Distribution of Labor in LDC’s, James McCabe
Growth and Distribution: Tradeoffs or Complements?, Gustav Ranis
Monetary and Unemployment Aspects of Trade- Balance Adjustment, Richard Brecher
Nutrition and the Fertility of Younger Women in Kinshasa, Zaire, Barbara Anderson and James L. McCabe
Social Factors and Labor Market Structure in Saudi Arabia, Ramon Knauerhase
More on Changing Income Distribution and Economic Development in Brazil, Gary S. Fields
Direct Foreign Investment by Latin Americans, Carlos F. Diaz-Alejandro
Development Theory at Three Quarters Century, Gustav Ranis
Papers from 1975
First Five Year Plan, Economic Development, of Policy Instruments and Institutions in Bangladesh, Malik Chowdhury
Fertility, Schooling and the Economic Contribution of Children in Rural India: An Econometric Analysis, Mark Rosenzweig and Robert Evenson
Regional Growth and Income Distribution: The Chinese Experience, Nicholas Lardy
Female Work Experience, Employment Status, and Birth Expectations: Sequential Decision-Making in the Philippines, Mark Rosenzweig
Economic Development and Financial Institutions, Gustav Ranis
Education and Economic Mobility in Colombia, Gary S. Fields
A Re-Examination of Brazilian Economic Development in the 1960s, Gary S. Fields
Aspects of Post World War II Growth in Less Developed Countries, Simon Kuznets
On Inequality and Economic Development, Gary S. Fields
Data Needs in Development Economics, Carlos F. Diaz-Alejandro
LDC Employment and Growth: A Synthesis of Economic Growth Center Research, Gustav Ranis
Time Structure of Production and the Theory of International Trade, Richard Brecher and Ian C. Parker
Technical Change in an Evolutionary Model, Richard Nelson, Sidney Winter, and Herbert Schuette
Demographic Components in Size-Distribution of Income, Simon Kuznets
The Beginnings of Commercial Agriculture in Iran, Nowshirvani Vahid and Alice Knight
The Demand for Farm Children: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, Mark Rosenzweig
Transport Cost and Other Determinants of the Intensity of Cultivation in Rural Zaire, Lucy Cardwell and James McCabe
Growth and the Family Distribution of Income by Factor Components: The Case of Taiwan, John C. H. Fei, Gustav Ranis, and Shirley W. Kuo
Wages and Employment in Dualistic Development: Japanese Experience, Ryoshin Minami and Akiro Ono
Monopsonistic Discrimination and Sex Differences Wages, Lucy A. Cardwell and Mark Rosenzweig
Papers from 1974
The Post-1971 International Financial System and the Less Developed Countries, Carlos F. Diaz-Alejandro
An Economist’s View of the Oceans, Richard N. Cooper
Female Labor-Force Participation and Fertility in Developing Countries, James McCabe and Mark Rosenzweig
Fertility Differentials Between Less Developed and Developed Regions: Components and Implications, Simon Kuznets
The Economic Determinants of School Enrollment and Expenditure in U.S. Agriculture, Mark Rosenzweig
Worldwide vs. Regional Integration: Is There an Optimal Size of the Integrated Area?, Richard N. Cooper
Recent Fertility in Mexico: Measurement and Interpretation, Daniel Seiver
The Introduction of Electric Power and Its Impact on the Manufacturing Industries: With Special References to Smaller Scale Plants, Ryoshin Minami
The Multinational Corporation as an Instrument of Development, Gustav Ranis
Equity, Efficiency and Social Welfare: A Comparison of Latin American Areas, Richard Weisskoff
Cocoa, Employment and Capital in the Ghanaian Economy: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, Richard Brecher and Ian C. Parker
Trade Policies and Colombian Development, Carlos F. Diaz-Alejandro
Economic Determinants of Fertility in Kinshasa, Zaire: An Analysis of the Published Data, James McCabe
Growth, Employment, and the Size Distribution of Income: A Progress Report, John C. H. Fei and Gary S. Fields
Income Inequality by Additive Factor Components, John C. H. Fei and Gustav Ranis
Migration-Labor Turnover and Human Investment Theory, Gary S. Fields
The Indexability of Ordinal Measures of Inequality, John C. H. Fei and Gary S. Fields
On Inequality Comparisons, Gary S. Fields and John C. H. Fei
Trade and the Import Control System in Colombia, Carlos F. Diaz-Alejandro
Viewing Social Pyramids: Income Distribution in Latin America, Adolfo Figueroa and Richard Weisskoff
North-South Relations: The Economic Component, Carlos F. Diaz-Alejandro
The Structure of Common Trade and the Prospects for East-West Exchanges, J. M. Montias
Aggregate Demand, the Wage Gap and Unemployment in LDC’s, Mark Gersovitz
Income Distribution and Optimal Growth: The Case of Open Unemployment, James L. McCabe and Milind M. Lele
The Intensive Agricultural Districts Program in India: A New Evaluation, Robert Evenson and Rakesh Mohan
Employment and Productivity in Kenyan Manufacturing, Howard Pack
The Financial Development of India and Japan, 1860- 1970 A Survey in Contrasts, Raymond Goldsmith