Contemporary issues in development economics

This course covers contemporary topics in development economics. It is appropriate for graduate students in economics, public policy, agricultural and resource economics, and related fields.
**Prerequisite: Econometrics for Public Policy or its equivalent

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授業計画

1.Measuring and Predicting Poverty 2.Comparative Politics 3.Education 4.General Equilibrium Effects 5.Health 6.Gender 7.Religion and Culture 1 8.Religion and Culture 2 9.Conflicts 10.Democracy and Aid

授業の方法

Lectures and Differentiated Instruction

成績評価方法

The final grade depends on the best 4 out of 5 quizzes (80%) and class discussion (20%). The overall grade distribution will follow the UTokyo assessment policy.

教科書

This course will follow a reading pack: https://docs.google.com/***** *** Please use your UTokyo email address to access the reading pack.

参考書

Angrist, J.D. and J.S. Pischke. (2015). Mastering Econometrics: The Path from Cause to Effect. Angrist, J.D. and J.S. Pischke. (2008). Mostly Harmless Econometrics: An Empiricist's Companion. Abadie, Alberto, Alexis Diamond, and Jens Hainmueller. (2015). "Comparative Politics and the Synthetic Control Method," American Journal of Political Science 59(2): 495–510. Mullainathan, Sendhil, and Jann Spiess. (2017). "Machine Learning: An Applied Econometric Approach," Journal of Economic Perspectives 31(2): 87–106.

履修上の注意

Due to this individualized teaching style, this course cannot take students who do not formally register for the course.