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Essays in development economics.

Harvard University.

Essays in development economics.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Essays in development economics.
Author:	Reed, Tristan.
Description:	198 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 75-10(E), Section: A.
Notes:	Adviser: Andrei Shliefer.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International75-10A(E).
Subject:	Economics.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3627062
ISBN:	9781321021721

Essays in development economics.
Reed, Tristan.

Essays in development economics. - 198 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 75-10(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Harvard University, 2014.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

This dissertation comprises three essays in development economics.

ISBN: 9781321021721Subjects--Topical Terms:

175999
Economics.

Essays in development economics.
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520 $a Chapter One studies how constraints on the political power of elites shape economic and social life. In Sierra Leone, we document that areas in which chiefs face less political competition have significantly worse development outcomes today--in particular, lower rates of educational attainment, child health, non-agricultural employment and asset ownership. Paradoxically, we also show that in chiefdoms with less competition the institutions of chiefs' authority are more highly respected among villagers, and measured social capital is higher. We argue that these results reflect the capture of civil society organizations by chiefs.
520 $a Chapter Two develops a new "spatial Lewis model" of industrialization across space in order to study a policy of the Indian government that reallocated capital to less developed regions of the country that nonetheless had large populations. The model emphasizes that even with constant agglomeration economies across space, capital investment may have a higher social return in areas where labor can be brought in to complement it at cheaper rates. In light of the model, such redistributive policies as those of the Indian government can be seen to be welfare improving in the aggregate.
520 $a Chapter Three studies the cocoa sector of Sierra Leone, where it is common for farmers and traders to engage in interlinked transactions in which output prices are determined jointly with the terms of a credit contract. We study price-pass thorough in the presence of such interlinkages. In response to an increase in a trader's wholesale price, we find limited pass-through of the price to farmers. However we also find a large increase in the likelihood that traders provide credit to farmers, suggesting that the value of the wholesale price increase was passed to farmers along a different margin. These results, upon which we build a model to provide intuition, suggest that the presence of interlinkages is a candidate explanation for low rates of price pass-through that have been observed, but one with substantially different implications for welfare than others.
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