Development Economics
Undergraduate course — University of Padova
Lecture Slides
- Lecture 1 — Introduction
- Lecture 2 — Poverty
- Lecture 3 — Extended Family and Kinship
- Lecture 4 — Fertility
- Lecture 5 — Child Labor
- Lecture 6 — HIV-AIDS in Africa
- Lecture 7 — Conflicts and Institutions
- Lecture 8 — Growth Theory
- Lecture 9 — Growth Regressions
Readings by Topic
Poverty
- Banerjee & Duflo — "The Economic Lives of the Poor"
- Deaton — "Instruments, Randomization, and Learning about Development"
Family Structure & Kinship
- Platteau — "Institutions, Social Norms and Economic Development" (selected chapters)
Fertility
- Becker — "A Treatise on the Family" (selected chapters)
Child Labor
- Basu & Van — "The Economics of Child Labor"
HIV-AIDS in Africa
- Philipson & Posner — "Private Choices and Public Health"
Conflicts and Institutions
- Collier & Hoeffler — "Greed and Grievance in Civil War"
- Acemoglu, Johnson & Robinson — "The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development"
Growth Theory & Regressions
- Mankiw, Romer & Weil — "A Contribution to the Empirics of Economic Growth"
- Sala-i-Martin — "I Just Ran Two Million Regressions"
Exercises & Assessments
- Problem sets (distributed during the course)
- Student group presentations — A.Y. 2016/17
- Past exam examples available upon request