Preliminaries
An undergraduate course that introduces
the students to the
field of Economic Development. The course identifies areas that are
important for policymaking as well as areas where there is scope for
further research.
I taught this course for 5 years at the LSE Summer School from July 2007 to July 2011. The course material for the course evolved over the 5 year period and this page reflects the material as it was taught in the last year. The student feedback for the course over the 5 year period can be found here .
Lecture Slides
- Lecture 1. Introduction: Redistribution, Growth and Welfare
- Lecture 2. Economic Growth: The Neo-classical & Endogenous Story
- Lecture 3. Economic Growth: Growth Education and Human Capital
- Lecture 4. Media and Policy
- Lecture 5. Property Rights
- Lecture 6. Land Redistribution
- Lecture 7. Poverty, Undernutrition and Intra-household Allocation
- Lecture 8. Credit, Saving and Insurance
- Lecture 9. Microfinance
- Lecture 10. Social Networks and Social Capital
- Lecture 11. Decentralisation and Public Goods Provision
- Lecture 12. Regulation and Development
Additional Notes
- A Short
Note on Ordinary Least Squares
- Note
on Diff in Diff, Dummies and IV
- Notes
on IV, Fixed Effects Dummies
- A
Short Note on Difference in Difference Estimator
- A
short Note on Instrumental Variables
- A short
Note on F tests
- Additional
Notes on Occupational Choice Theory
- Additional Notes on Reinikka & Svensson
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