Publications of Charles M Becker

Books

  1. Charles M. Becker, Grigory A. Marchenko, Sabit Khakimzhanov, Ai-Gul S. Seitenova, and Vladimir Ivliev, SOCIAL SECURITY REFORM IN TRANSITION ECONOMICS: LESSONS FROM KAZAKHSTAN (2009), New York: Palgrave Macmillan
  2. Mills, Edwin S. and Charles M. Becker, STUDIES IN INDIAN URBAN DEVELOPMENT (2004), New York: Oxford University Press
  3. National Research Council, Panel on Urban Population Dynamics. Mark R. Montgomery and Richard Stren, editors, with the assistance of Holly Reed, CITIES TRANSFORMED: THE DYNAMICS OF DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGE IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES (2003), National Academies Press
  4. Becker, Charles M., Andrew M. Hamer, and Andrew R. Morrison, BEYOND URBAN BIAS: AFRICAN CITIES IN AN AGE OF STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT (1994) (London: Heinemann and James Currey..)
  5. Becker, Charles M., Jeffrey G. Williamson, and Edwin S. Mills, INDIAN URBANIZATION AND ECONOMIC GROWTH SINCE 1960 (1992), Johns Hopkins University Press
  6. Becker, Charles M., Trevor Bell, Haider Ali Khan, and Patricia Pollard, THE IMPACT OF SANCTIONS ON SOUTH AFRICA (1990) (Washington, DC: Investor Responsibility Research Center.)

Book Reviews

  1. C.M. Becker, Review of Arne Tostensen, et al., Eds. 2001. ASSOCIATIONAL LIFE IN AFRICAN CITIES: POPULAR RESPONSES TO THE URBAN CRISIS: Uppsala, Sweden: Nordiska Afrikainstutet, African Studies Review, vol. 46 no. 1 (2003), pp. 193-94
  2. C.M. Becker, Review of Bill Freund and Vishnu Padayachee, Eds. 2002. (D)URBAN VORTEX: SOUTH AFRICAN CITY IN TRANSITION. Pietermaritzburg, South Africa: University of Natal Press, African Studies Review, vol. 47 (2003)
  3. C.M. Becker, Review of World Bank. 2000. ENTERING THE 21ST CENTURY: WORLD DEVELOPMENT REPORT 1999/2000. New York: Oxford University Press., Regional Science & Urban Economics (2001)
  4. C.M. Becker, Review of Shirin Akiner, Sander Tideman, and John Hay, Eds. SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN CENTRAL ASIA. New York: St. Martins Press., Journal of Energy & Development, vol. 25 no. 2 (Spring, 2000)

Journal Articles

  1. C.M. Becker, Rebecca Anthopolos, Global Infant Mortality: Initial results from a cross-country infant mortality comparison project, World Development (forthcoming)
  2. Charles M. Becker and Terry-Ann L. Craigie, W. Arthur Lewis in Retrospect, Review of Black Political Economy, vol. 34 no. 4 (December 2007)
  3. C.M. Becker, Erbolat Musabek, Ai-Gul Seitenova, and Dina Urzhumova, The migration response to economic shock: lessons, Journal of Comparative Economics, vol. 33 no. 1 (March, 2005)
  4. C.M. Becker, A.S. Seitenova, D.S. Urzhumova, Mortality recovery and stabilization in Kazakhstan, Economics and Human Biology, vol. 3 no. 1 (2005)
  5. C.M. Becker, Ai-Gul Seitenova, Kazakhstan’s pension system: pressures for change and dramatic reforms, Hitotsubashi Journal of Economics, vol. 45 no. 2 (December, 2004)
  6. C.M. Becker, Economic consequences of demographic change in the former USSR: social transfers in the Kyrgyz Republic, World Development, vol. 32 no. 11 (November, 2004), pp. 1849-1870
  7. C.M. Becker, E.N. Musabek, A.S. Seitenova, D.S. Urzhumova, Short-run migration responses of men and women during a period of economic turmoil: lessons from Kazakhstan, Eurasian Geography and Economics, vol. 44 no. 3 (2003), pp. 228-43
  8. C.M. Becker, Erbolat Musabek, Ai-Gul Seitenova, and Dina Urzhumova, Short-run migration responses of men and women during a period of economic turmoil: lessons from Kazakhstan, Eurasian Geography and Economics, vol. 44 no. 3 (2003), pp. 228-243
  9. C.M. Becker, Fertility Decline in sub-Saharan Africa, Journal of African Policy Studies, vol. 7 no. 2-3 (May, 2002), pp. 1-16
  10. C.M. Becker, A.S. Seitenova, J. Piedra, Demand for bank loans and credit bureau services in the Republic of, ,” Central Asian Journal of Management, Economics and Social Research, vol. 3 no. 1 (2002), pp. 1-19
  11. C.M. Becker, S.V. Paltsev, Macro-Experimental Economics in the Kyrgyz Republic: Social Security Sustainability and, Comparative Economic Studies, vol. 43 no. 4 (Fall, 2001), pp. 1-34
  12. M. Quddus, C.M. Becker, Speculative Price Bubbles in the Rice Market and the 1974 Bangladesh Famine, Journal of Economic Development, vol. 25 no. 2 (December, 2000), pp. 155-175
  13. K.H. Anderson, C.M. Becker, Post-Soviet Pension Systems, Retirement, and Elderly Poverty: Findings from the Kyrgyz Republic, -MOST: Economic Policy in Transitional Economies, vol. 9 no. 4 (Fall, 1999), pp. 459-78
  14. C.M. Becker, David Bloom, The Demographic Crisis in the Former Soviet Union: Introduction, World Development, vol. 26 no. 11 (November, 1998), pp. 1913-1920
  15. C.M. Becker, David Hemley, Demographic Change in the Former Soviet Union during the Transition Period, World Development, vol. 26 no. 11 (November, 1998), pp. 1957-1976
  16. C.M. Becker, Dina Urzhumova, Pension Burdens and Labor Force Participation in Kazakstan, World Development, vol. 26 no. 11 (November, 1998), pp. 2087-2103
  17. C.M. Becker, Margarita Ibragimova, Grace Holmes and Damira Bibosunova, Maternal Care vs. Economic Wealth and the Health of Newborns: Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic and Kansas City, USA, World Development, vol. 26 no. 11 (November, 1998), pp. 2057-2072
  18. C.M. Becker, Christopher Grewe, Rural-Urban Migration in Africa: Do Age-Gender Cohorts Matter?, Journal of African Economies, vol. 5 no. 2 (June, 1996), pp. 228-270
  19. C.M. Becker, David Hemley, Interregional Inequality in Russia during the Transition Period, Comparative Economic Studies, vol. 38 no. 1 (May, 1996), pp. 55-81
  20. C.M. Becker, Andrew Morrison, Observational Equivalence in the Modeling of African Labor Markets and Rural-Urban Migration, World Development, vol. 21 no. 4 (April, 1993)
  21. C.M. Becker, The Demo-Economic Impact of the AIDS Pandemic in Sub-Saharan Africa, World Development, vol. 18 no. 12 (December, 1990), pp. 1599-1619
  22. C.M. Becker, The Impact of Sanctions on South Africa and Its Periphery, African Studies Review, vol. 31 no. 2 (September, 1988), pp. . 61-88
  23. C.M. Becker, Andrew Morrison, The Determinants of Urban Population Growth in sub-Saharan Africa, Economic Development and Cultural Change, vol. 36 no. 2 (January, 1988), pp. 259-278
  24. C.M. Becker, Timothy Bartik, John Bush and Steven Lake, Saturn and State Economic Development, Forum for Applied Research and Public Policy, vol. 2 no. 1 (Spring, 1987), pp. . 29 40
  25. C.M. Becker, Urban Sector Income Distribution and Economic Development, Journal of Urban Economics, vol. 21 (March, 1987), pp. 127 145
  26. C.M. Becker, Economic Sanctions Against South Africa, World Politics, vol. 39 no. 2 (January, 1987), pp. 147-173
  27. C.M. Becker, Edwin S. Mills and Jeffrey G. Williamson, Modeling Indian Migration and City Growth 1960 2000, Economic Development and Cultural Change, vol. 35 no. 1 (October, 1986), pp. 1-33
  28. C.M. Becker, Edwin S. Mills and Jeffrey G. Williamson, Dynamics of Rural-Urban Migration in India, 1960 1981, Indian Journal of Quantitative Economics, vol. 2 no. 1 (June, 1986), pp. 1-43
  29. C.M. Becker, Don Fullerton, Income Tax Incentives to Promote Savings, National Tax Journal, vol. 33 no. 3 (September, 1980), pp. 331-351

Chapters in Books

  1. Charles M. Becker and Gregory N. Price, Curriculum Intensity in Graduate Preparatory Programs: Impact on Performance and Progression to Graduate Study among Minority Students in Economics, in DOCTORAL EDUCATION AND THE FACULTY OF THE FUTURE, edited by Ronald G. Ehrenberg and Charlotte V. Kuh (2008), Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, ISBN 978-0-8014-4543-9
  2. C.M. Becker, Urbanization and Rural-Urban Migration, in INTERNATIONAL HANDBOOK OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS, edited by Amitava Krishna Dutt and Jaime Ros (2008 (forthcoming)), Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar
  3. Charles M. Becker, Ai-Gul Seitenova and Dina S. Urzhumova, Pension Reform in Central Asia: an Overview, in ECONOMICS OF INTERGENERATIONAL EQUITY IN TRANSITION ECONOMIES, edited by Masaaki Kuboniwa and Yoshiaki Nishimura (2006), Tokyo: Maruzen Publishers (Ch. 9.)
  4. Charles M. Becker and Ai-Gul S. Seitenova, Fertility and Marriage in Kazakhstan's Transition Period: Implications for Social Security Policy, in ECONOMICS OF INTERGENERATIONAL EQUITY IN TRANSITION ECONOMIES, edited by Masaaki Kuboniwa and Yoshiaki Nishimura (2006), Tokyo: Maruzen Publishers (Ch. 13.)
  5. C.M. Becker and A.R. Morrison, Urbanization in Transforming Economies, in HANDBOOK OF REGIONAL URBAN ECONOMICS, North-Holland Handbooks in Economics, edited by P. Cheshire and E.S. Mills (1999), Elsevier North-Holland (Ch. 43, pp. 1172-1290..)

Working Papers

  1. Charles M. Becker and Irina S. Merkuryeva, Disability Risk and Miraculous Recoveries in Russia (2008)
  2. Charles M. Becker and Ai-Gul S. Seitenova, Disability in Kazakhstan: making sense of recent trends, World Bank Social Protection Discussion Paper 0802 (February 2008)