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BULLETINS

2007

07-1 Gaitan, Beatriz and Terry Roe. Path interdependence among early and late bloomers in a dynamic Heckscher-Ohlin model. April 2007. 34p.

2006

06-1 Shane, Matthew, Terry Roe and Agapi Somwaru. Exchange rates, foreign income, and U.S. agriculture. June 2006. 21p.

2005

05-2 Alemu, Zerihun, Terry L. Roe & Rodney B.W. Smith. The impact of HIV on total factor productivity. November 2005. 15p.

05-1 Gaitan, Beatriz & Terry Roe. Natural resource abundance and economic growth in a two country world. June 2005. 27p.

2002

02-1 Diao, Xinshen, Terry Roe & Rachid Doukkali. Economy-wide benefits from establishing water user-right markets in a spatially heterogeneous agricultural economy. October, 2002. 34p.

2001

01-1) Diao, Xinshen, Agapi Somwaru & Terry Roe. A global analysis of agricultural trade reform in WTO member countries. January 2001. 21p. (Agricultural policy reform in the WTO: The road ahead, ed. Mary Burfisher. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, 2001, p. 25-40 (Chapter 1) Agricultural Economic Report 802)

01-2) Mohtadi, Hamid & Terry Roe. Democracy, rent seeking, public spending, and growth. June 2001. 22p. (Journal of Public Economics, 87:3-4, March, 2003, 445-66)

01-3) Glewwe, Paul. Schools, skills and economic development: education policies, student learning and socioeconomic outcomes in developing countries. December 2001. 73p. (Journal of Economic Literature, 40:2, June, 2002, 436-82, as "Schools and skills in developing countries: Education policies and socioeconomic outcomes.")

2000

00-1) Gaitan, Beatriz & Ferdinand Pavel. Is "getting the prices right" always right?: how trade liberalization can fail. March 2000. 30p.

00-2) Ruttan, Vernon. Imperialism and competition in anthropology: sociology, political science and economics: a perspective from development economics. March 2000. 28p. (Journal of Socio-economics, 30:1, January, 2001, 15-29)

1999

99-1) Lin, Pei-Chinn & Terry Roe. Growth theory and accounting for growth of the Taiwanese economy. July, 1999. 34p.

99-2) Colby, Hunter, Xinshen Diao & Agapi Somwaru. Sources of growth and supply response: a cross-commodity analysis of China's grain sector. July, 1999. 21p.

1998

98-1) Diao, X, T.L. Roe & A.E. Yeldan. How fiscal (mis)-management may impede trade reform: lessons from an intertemporal, multi-sector general equilibrium model for Turkey. January, 1998. 31p.(Developing Economies, 37:1, March 1999, 59-88)

98-2) never published

98-3) Kawuryan, Anna Maria Siti. Educational achievement and sectoral transition in the Indonesian labor force. March, 1998. 51p.

98-4) Ruttan, Vernon W. Growth economics and development economics: what should development economists learn (if anything) from the new growth theory? April, 1998. 53p. (Journal of Development Studies, 35:2, December 1998, 1-26 as "The new growth theory and development economics: a survey")

98-5) Diao, Xinshen & Terry Roe. The effect of sequencing trade and water market reform on interest groups in irrigated agriculture: an intertemporal economy-wide analysis of the Moroccan case. November, 1998. 34p.

98-6) Peterson, Willis. Monetary instability and economic growth. November, 1998. 31p.

1997

97-1) Tao, Hung-Lin & Thomas F. Stinson. An alternative measure of the human capital stock. April, 1997. 31p.

1996

96-1) Diao, X., E.H. Elbasha, T.L. Roe & E. Yeldan. A dynamic computable general equilibrium model: an application of R & D based endogenous growth model theory. May 1996. 44p.

96-2) Gopinath, Munisamy & Terry L. Roe. R & D spillovers: evidence from U.S. food processing, farm machinery and agriculture. October 1996. 18p.(Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 9:3, 2000, 223-43 as "R & D spillovers: evidence from U.S. food processing, farm machinery and agricultural sectors.")

96-3) Diao, Xinshen & Agapi Somwaru. Dynamic gains and losses from trade reform: an intertemporal general equilibrium model of the United States and MERCOSUR. October 1996. 47p. (International Economic Journal, 13:1, Spring 1999, 27-43 as "MERCOSUR and the U.S.: An intertemporal general equilibrium evaluation of the regional integration.")

96-4) Ruttan, Vernon W. Sources of technical change: induced innovation, evolutionary theory and path dependence. December 1996. 60p.(Technological Change and the Environment, ed. by Arnulf Grubler, Nebojsa Nakicenovic & William D. Nordhaus. Washington, DC: Resources for the Future, 2002, 9-39; also in Path Dependence and Creation, ed. by Raghu Garud and Peter Karnoe. L. Erlbaum Associates, 2001.)

1995

95-1) Elbasha, Elamin H. & Terry Roe. On endogenous growth: the implications of environmental externalities. February, 1995. 42p. (Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 31:2, September 1996, 240-68)

95-2) Roe, Terry & Xinshen Diao. The strategic interdependence of a shared water aquifer: a general equilibrium analysis. March, 1995. 30p.

95-3) Yeldan, Erinc. Political economy perspectives on the 1994 Turkish economic crisis: a computable general equilibrium modeling analysis. March, 1995. 54p.(International Review of Applied Economics, 12:3, September 1998, 397-414 as: "On structural sources of the 1994 Turkish crisis: a CGE modelling analysis.")

95-4) Diao, Xinshen & Terry Roe. Environment, welfare and gains from trade: a North-South model in general equilibrium. March, 1995. 46p. (Agriculture, Trade, and the Environment: Discovering and Measuring the Critical Linkages, ed. M.E. Bredahl, et al, Westview Press, 1996, 111-36)

95-5) Aziz, Fahima. Nutrition, health and labor productivity analysis of male and female workers: a test of the efficiency wage hypothesis. August, 1995. 66p.

95-6) Elbasha, Elamin H. & Terry L. Roe. Environment in three classes of endogenous growth models. August, 1995. 35p.

95-7) Munisamy, Gopinath & Terry L. Roe. Sources of sectoral growth in an economy wide context: the case of U.S. agriculture. August, 1995. 29p.(Journal of Productivity Analysis, 8:3, August 1997, 293-310)

95-8) Munisamy, Gopinath & Terry L. Roe. General equilibrium analysis of supply and factor returns in U.S. agriculture, 1949-91. August, 1995. 29p.

95-9) Gollin, Douglas. Do taxes on large firms impede growth?: evidence from Ghana. November, 1995. 49p.

1994

94-1) Tsur, Yacov & Amos Zemel. Endangered species and natural resource exploitation: extinction vs. coexistence. May. 1994. 27p. (Natural Resource Modeling, 8:4, Fall 1994, 389-413)

94-2) Smale, Melinda & Vernon W. Ruttan. Cultural endowments, institutional renovation and technical innovation: the "Groupements Naam" of Yatenga, Burkina Faso. July, 1994. 34p. (Institutions and Economic Development: Growth and governance in less-developed and post- socialist countries, ed. Christopher Clague, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997, 182-200, as "Social capital and technical change: The Groupements Naam of Burkina Faso.")

94-3) Roumasset, James. Explaining diversity in agricultural organization: an agency perspective. August, 1994. 56p.

1993

93-1) Hayami, Yujiro & Vernon Ruttan. Induced technical and institutional change evaluation and reassessment: two chapters. ["Induced innovation theory and agricultural development: A personal account" AND "Induced innovation theory and agricultural development: A reassessment"] February, 1993. 47p. (Induced Innovation Theory and Agricultural Development: A Reassessment, ed. B. Koppel, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995, 22-36; 169-88)

93-2) Guyomard, Herve & Louis P. Mahe. Producer behaviour under strict rationing and quasi-fixed factors. September, 1993. 24p.

1992

92-1) Kim, Sunwoong & Hamid Mohtadi. Education, job signaling, and dual labor markets in developing countries. January, 1992. 21p.

92-2) Kim, Sunwoong & Hamid Mohtadi. Labor specialization and endogenous growth. January, 1992. 12p. (American Economic Review, 82:2, May 1992, 404-08)

92-3) Roe, Terry. Political economy of structural adjustment: a general equilibrium-interest group perspective. April, 1992. 45p. (State, Market and Civil Organizations: New Theories, New Practices and Their Implications for Rural Development, ed. A. Janvry, S. Radwan, E. Sadoulet and E. Thorbec, Macmillan, 1995)

92-4) Mohtadi, Hamid & Terry Roe. Endogenous growth, health and the environment. July, 1992. 29p.

1991

91-1) Mohtadi, Hamid & Terry Roe. Political economy of endogenous growth. January, 1991. 30p. Revised April, 1991. 40p.

91-2) Ruttan, Vernon W. The future of U.S. foreign economic assistance. February, 1991. 19p.

91-3) Fan, Shenggen and Vernon W. Ruttan. Induced technical change in centrally planned economies. May, 1991. 20p. (Agricultural Economics, 6:4, 1992, 301-14)

1990

90-1) Falconi, Cesar & Terry Roe. Economics of food safety: risk, information, and the demand and supply of health. July, 1990. 22p. (Economics of Food Safety, ed. J. Caswell, Elsevier, 1991, p. 45-66 as: "A model of the demand and supply of the health effects of food substances.")

90-2) Roe, Terry L. & Theodore Graham-Tomasi. Competition among rent seeking groups in general equilibrium. September, 1990. 33p.

1989

89-1) Pitt, Mark M., Mark R. Rosenzweig & Md. Hassul Hassan. Productivity, health, and inequality in the intrahousehold distribution of food in low income countries. February, 1989. 44p. (American Economic Review, 80:5, December 1990, 1139-56)

89-2) Johnson, Martin, Terry Roe & Louis Mahe. The GATT negotiations and US/EC agricultural policies: solutions to non-cooperative games. March, 1989. 14p. (Journal of Policy Modeling, 15:2, April 1993, 199-222 as "Trade Compromises Between the European Community and the United States: An Interest Group-Game Theory Approach")

89-3) Fuglie, Keith. "Vent-for-surplus" as a source of agricultural growth in Northeast Thailand, 1950-1986. March, 1989. 39p. (Journal of Developing Areas, 25:3, April 1991, 331-46)

89-4) Rosenzweig, Mark R. & Hans P. Binswanger. Wealth, weather risk and the composition and profitability of agricultural investments. June, 1989. 34p. (Economic Journal, 103: 1, January 1993, 56-78)

89-5) McGuire, Mark F. & Vernon W. Ruttan. Lost directions: U.S. foreign assistance policy since new directions. August, 1989. 112p. (Journal of Developing Areas, 24:2, January 1990, 127-79)

89-6) Coggins, Jay S. On the welfare consequences of political activity. August, 1989. 50p.

89-7) Ramaswami, Bharat & Terry L. Roe. Incompleteness in insurance: an analysis of the multiplicative case. September, 1989. 33p.

89-8) Rosenzweig, Mark R. & Kenneth I. Wolpin. Credit market constraints, consumption smoothing and the accumulation of durable production assets in low-income countries: investments in bullocks in India. September, 1989. 60p. (Journal of Political Economy, 101:2, April 1993, 223-44)

89-9) Pitt, Mark M. & Mark R. Rosenzweig. The selectivity of fertility and the determinants of human capital investments: parametric and semi-parametric estimates. October, 1989. 42p.

89-10) Ruttan, Vernon W. What happened to political development? November, 1989. 45p. (Economic Development and Cultural Change, 39:2, January 1991, 265-92)

1988

88-1) Roe, Terry & Erinc Yeldan. An open economy model of political influence and competition among rent seeking groups. February, 1988. 30p.

88-2) Mahe, L.P. & C. Tavera. Bilateral harmonization of E.C. and U.S. agricultural policies. August, 1988. 32p. (European Review of Agricultural Economics, 15:4, 1988, 327-48)

88-3) Pitt, Mark M. & Gunawan Sumodiningrat. The determinants of rice variety choice in Indonesia. September, 1988. 37p. (International Economic Review, 32:2, May 1991, 457-73 as "Risk, schooling and the choice of seed technology in developing countries: a meta-profit function approach")

88-4) Sartorius, Rolf & Vernon W. Ruttan. The sources of the basic human needs mandate. November, 1988. 57p. (Journal of Developing Areas, 23:3, April 1989, 331-61)

88-5) Coggins, Jay, Theodore Graham-Tomasi & Terry L. Roe. Existence of equilibria in lobbying economies. December, 1988. 29p. (International Economic Review, 32:3, August 1991, 533-50)

1987

87-1) Rosenzweig, Mark R. & T. Paul Schultz. Fertility and investment in human capital: estimates of the consequences of imperfect fertility control in Malayasia. February, 1987. 36p. (Journal of Econometrics, 36:1/2, Sept-Oct 1987, 163-84)

87-2) Ruttan, Vernon W. Why foreign economic assistance? March, 1987. 27p. (Economic Development and Cultural Change, 37:2, January 1989, 411-24)

87-3) Wong, Lung Fai. Agricultural productivity in China and India: A comparative analysis. March, 1987. 20p. (Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics, 37:1, March 1989, 77-93)

87-4) Roe, Terry L. Agricultural policy in developing countries: the transfer of resources from agriculture. April, 1987. 36p. (Food, Policy, and Politics: A Perspective on Agriculture and Development, eds. G. Horwich & G.J. Lynch, Westview Press, 1989, 91-119)

87-5) Rosenzweig, Mark R. Labor markets in low income countries: distortions, mobility, and migration. April, 1987. 70p. (Handbook of Development Economics, vol. 1. eds. H. Chenery & T.N. Srinivasan, North-Holland, 1988)

87-6) Lee, Lung-Fei & Mark M. Pitt. Microeconomic models of rationing, imperfect markets, and non-negativity constraints. May, 1987. 31p. (Journal of Econometrics, 36:1/2, Sept- Oct. 1987, 89-110)

87-7) Yeldan, Erinc A. Structural adjustment and trade in Turkey: a general equilibrium analysis of the export-led versus domestic demand-led strategies of development. June, 1987. 64p. (Journal of Policy Modeling, 11:2, Summer 1989, 273-96)

87-8) Rosenzweig, Mark R. Human capital, population growth, and economic development: beyond correlations. July, 1987. 36p. (Journal of Policy Modeling, 10:1, April, 1988, 83-111)

87-9) Pitt, Mark M. & Mark R. Rosenzweig. Estimating the intra-family incidence of health: child illness and gender inequality in Indonesian households. July, 1987. 32p. (International Economic Review, 31:4, November 1990, 969- 80)

87-10) Hagen, James M. & Vernon W. Ruttan. Development policy under Eisenhower and Kennedy. November, 1987. 54p. (Journal of Developing Areas, 23:1, October 1988, 1-30)

87-11) Rosenzweig, Mark R. & Oded Stark. Consumption smoothing, migration, and marriage: evidence from rural India. November 1987. 33p. (Journal of Political Economy, 97:4, August 1989, 905-26)

87-12) Jasso, Guillermina & Mark R. Rosenzweig. English language skill acquisition, locational choice and labor market returns among the major foreign-born language groups in the United States in 1900 and 1980. December, 1987. 38p. (Migration and Labor Market Adjustment, ed. J. van Dijk, Kluwer, 1989, 217-39)

1986

86-1) Yeldan, A. Erinc. A computable general equilibrium model for development policy analysis. March, 1986. 69p.

86-2) Roe, Terry, Matthew Shane, & De Huu Vo. Import elasticity with government intervention: a time series cross section analysis of seventy-two countries. April, 1986. 32p.

86-3) Yen, Tze-Yi (Steven) & Terry L. Roe. Determinants of rural and urban household demand: an analysis of Dominican household consumption. July, 1986. 91p. (American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 71:1, February 1989, 85-98, as "Estimation of a two-level demand system with limited dependent variables")

86-4) Wong, Lung-Fai & Vernon W. Ruttan. A comparative analysis of agricultural productivity trends in centrally planned countries. August, 1986. 33p. (Soviet Agriculture: Comparative Perspectives, ed. K. R. Gray, Iowa State University Press, 1990, 23-47)

86-5) Thirtle, Colin G. & Vernon W. Ruttan. The role of demand and supply in the generation and diffusion of technical change. September, 1986. 220p. (Book of same title, Harwood, 1987, Fundamentals of Pure and Applied Economics series, vol. 21)

86-6) Rosenzweig, Mark R. Risk, implicit contracts and the family in rural areas of low-income countries. November, 1986. 30p. (Economic Journal, 98:4, December 1988, 1148-70)

86-7) Ruttan, Vernon W. Cultural endowments and economic development: what can we learn from anthropology? December, 1986. 45p. (Economic Development and Cultural Change, 36:3, April 1988 [supplement], S247-71)

1985

85-1) Ruttan, Vernon W. Technical and institutional change in agricultural development: two lectures. ["Technical change and agricultural development" and "Institutional change and agricultural development"] May, 1985. 63p. (Lectures in Development Economics, No. 6, Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, 1987)

85-2) Pray, Carl E. & Vernon W. Ruttan. Completion report of the Asian agricultural research project (Contract No. AID/ASIA C-1456). April, 1985. 128p.

85-3) Kennedy, Joseph V. & Vernon W. Ruttan. A reexamination of professional and popular thought on assistance for economic development: 1949-1952. April, 1985. 55p. (Journal of Developing Areas, 20:3, April 1986, 297-326)

85-4) Jasso, Guillermina & Mark R. Rosenzweig. What's in a name?: Country-of-origin influences on the earnings of immigrants in the United States. June, 1985. 31p. (Research in Human Capital and Development, 4, JAI Press, 1986, 75-106)

85-5) Pray, Carl. Private sector research and technology transfer in Asian agriculture: Report of Phase 1 (AID Grant OTR- 0091-4195-00). December, 1985. 64p.

1984

84-1) Pitt, Mark M. & Mark R. Rosenzweig. Agricultural prices, food consumption and the health and productivity of farmers. April, 1984. 46p. (Agricultural Household Models: Extensions, Applications, and Policy, eds. I. Singh & L. Squire, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986, 153-82)

84-2) Rosenzweig, Mark R. & Kenneth I. Wolpin. Heterogeneity, intrafamily distribution and child health. April, 1984. 32p. (Journal of Human Resources, 23:4, Fall 1988, 437-61)

84-3) Rosenzweig, Mark R. & Kenneth I. Wolpin. Specific experience, household structure and intergenerational transfers: farm family land and labor arrangements in developing countries. May, 1984. 38p. (Quarterly Journal of Economics, 100:5 [supplement, #402], 1985, 961-87)

84-4) Lee, Lung-Fei & Mark M. Pitt. Microeconomic models of consumer and producer demand with limited dependent variables. October, 1984. 39p.

84-5) Rosenzweig, Mark R. & Kenneth I. Wolpin. Migration selectivity and the effects of public programs. October, 1984. 31p. (Journal of Public Economics, 37:3, December 1988, 265-89)

84-6) Rosenzweig, Mark R. & Kenneth I. Wolpin. Externalities, heterogeneity and the optimal distribution of public programs: child health and family planning interventions. December, 1984. 31p. (American Economic Review, 76:3, June 1986, 470-82, as "Evaluating the effects of optimally distributed public programs: child health and family planning interventions.")

REPORTS

1. Pray, Carl E. Agricultural research and technology transfer by the private sector in India. October, 1986. 68p.

2. Pray, Carl E. Agricultural research and technology transfer by the private sector in the Philippines. October, 1986. 64p.

3. Pray, Carl E. Agricultural research and technology transfer by the private sector in Indonesia. October, 1986. 37p.

4. Pray, Carl E. Private sector agricultural research and technology transfer in LDCs: Report on Phase II. March, 1987. 50p.

5. Waelti, John J. Indigenous social science and economic development in Kenya. March, 1988. 49p.

 

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