いくつかメモ

@arimotoy さんの紹介で、
「JICAプロフェッショナルの挑戦」のデジタル書籍。
http://partner.jica.go.jp/e-doc/index.html
開発援助の現場の状況をインプットしながら研究アイディアを考えるのもよいかも。

職場の同僚の@pta277　さんの紹介で、
貧困分析に便利なDistributive Analysis Stata Package。
http://132.203.59.36/DASP/dmodules/mdecomposition.htm

@J_YAMASAKI さんの紹介で、
便利なMATLABコマンドのライブラリ。
http://www.spatial-econometrics.com/html/view.html
主にSpatial econometrics。
後でSpatial econometricsも勉強してみたい。
こちらにはTex出力してくれるmファイルのlprint.m　も。
http://www.spatial-econometrics.com/util/contents.html

大学院の同期だったべっしょさんのOveridentification testに関するブログポスト：
http://shunkun.blog.ocn.ne.jp/blog/2011/11/oir.html
http://shunkun.blog.ocn.ne.jp/blog/2011/12/oir_23d8.html
Overidentification testはよく使われる割にそんなに教科書などで詳しく説明されていないので、
まだ理解が不確かな部分が多い。

@ishikun3 さんのツイート：
[卒論の想い出]　大学時代の恩師曰く、「卒論はbaby thesisと言われるのよ。でも、あなたが研究したい分野について、日本一詳しくなりなさい。修士論文では、世界一になりなさい。そして博士論文では、自分の研究分野をつくるのよ！」

Jonathan MorduchのTen Research Questions on Improving Financial Access
http://financialaccess.org/node/3807

そして、最新のJELに興味深いペーパーがいくつか。

The Fundamental Institutions of China's Reforms and Development
Chenggang Xu
China's economic reforms have resulted in spectacular growth and poverty reduction. However, China's institutions look ill-suited to achieve such a result, and they indeed suffer from serious shortcomings. To solve the "China puzzle," this paper analyzes China's institution—a regionally decentralized authoritarian system. The central government has control over personnel, whereas subnational governments run the bulk of the economy; and they initiate, negotiate, implement, divert, and resist reforms, policies, rules, and laws. China's reform trajectories have been shaped by regional decentralization. Spectacular performance on the one hand and grave problems on the other hand are all determined by this governance structure.

Economic Liberalization and Indian Economic Growth: What's the Evidence?
Ashok Kotwal, Bharat Ramaswami and Wilima Wadhwa
India's growth and poverty performance over the last three decades has been a subject of great curiosity. Unlike the East Asian countries, India's growth spurt is not associated with exceptionally high domestic savings or foreign capital inflows or manufacturing exports. So what triggered the change in the growth trajectory? Did the market liberalization policies of the 1990s help? How have the initial conditions shaped the process? And how has the "Indian model" impinged on India's central problem of mass poverty? This paper surveys the literature and offers its own assessment of the drivers of change.