Development Microeconomics 5076S (Masters)

Outline

1. Empirical Methods

- Lecture slides

- Required Readings:

• Banerjee, Abhijit and Esther Duflo, 2008, "The Experimental Approach to Development Economics", CEPR Discussion Papers 7037, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers

• Heckman, James J., 1991, "Randomization and Social Policy Evaluation", NBER Technical Working Papers 0107, National Bureau of Economic Research

• Rodrik, Dani, 2008, "The New Development Economics: We Shall Experiment, but How Shall We Learn?", Working Paper Series rwp08-055, Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government

2. Education

- Lecture slides

- Required Readings:

• Case, Anne and Angus Deaton, 1999. "School inputs and educational outcomes in South Africa", The Quarterly Journal of Economics 14, no. 3

• Duflo, Esther and Rema Hanna, 2005. "Monitoring Works: Getting Teachers to Come to School", NBER Working Papers 11880, National Bureau of Economic Research

• Lloyd Cynthia, and Ann Blanc, 1996. "Children's Schooling in sub-Saharan Africa: The Role of Fathers, Mothers, and Others", Population and Development Review, Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 265-298

3. Health

- Lecture slides

- Required Readings:

• Thornton, Rebecca, 2008. "The Demand for, and Impact of, Learning HIV Status", American Economic Review, 98:5, 1829-1863

- Stata Exercise, Data and Solutions on Thornton's paper