Family (Class #1)

HOMEWORK

1. Read Chapter 5 in Poor Economics (required)

2. Videos 1-3 (below): Will deepen your understanding of Chapter 5, but not required (optional).

3. Readings 1-3 (below): Will deepen your understanding of Chapter 5, but not required (optional).

ACTIVITIES

Question of the Day: How are the problems of countries in Sub-Saharan Africa related to:

1. The decisions families make about having children?

2. The HIV/AIDS crisis?

Activity #1: Discussion with Hopkins

Activity #2: Work on social enterprise project with Smith

RESOURCES

Poor Economics Website

1. Data set: This 18-country data set may give you evidence to support your ideas.

2. Studies: These studies may help you prepare too.

Videos

1. (Somewhat) Unorthodox Findings on the Family

2. How do Families Decide?

3. Gender Discrimination

Readings

1. Sen, Amartya. "More Than 100 Million Women Are Missing." The New York Review of Books 37, no. 20 (1990).

2. This blog post discusses the role that demography should play in guiding policy in the developing world.

3. This downloadable book discusses the same topic in more depth.