Contemporary Issues in Development Economics

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

Lectures and Differentiated Instruction

The final grade depends on performance in quizzes (40%), one presentation (40%), and class participation (20%). The overall grade distribution will follow the UTokyo assessment policy.

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

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.

**Prerequisite: Econometrics for Public Policy or its equivalent

All course materials will be updated and downloadable from this folder https://drive.google.com/***** ** Please use your U-Tokyo email address to access the files.