Fall 2016 Lecture Handouts:
Lecture 1: Measuring Poverty and Inequality (August 31)
Lecture 2: The Problem of Causal Inference (September 7)
Lecture 3: Geography I (September 12)
Lecture 4: Geography II (September 14)
Lecture 5: The African Slave Trade I (September 19)
Lecture 6: The African Slave Trade II (September 21)
Lecture 7: The Legacy of Colonialism (September 26)
MID-TERM EXAM 1 (September 28)
Lecture 8: Development Policy in the Post-War Period (October 3)
Lecture 9: The Debt Crisis & Structural Adjustment (October 5)
Film: Life and Debt (October 10)
Film: Life and Debt (October 12)
Lecture 10: Trade Liberalization (October 17)
Lecture 11: The Randomization Revolution (October 19)
Lecture 12: Health in Early Childhood (October 24)
Lecture 13: Worms and Development in Early Childhood (October 26)
Guest lecture by Dr. Owen Ozier, Development Research Group, World Bank
Lectures 14 & 15: The Demand for Prevention (October 31, November 2)
MID-TERM EXAM 2 (November 7)
Lecture 16: The Returns to Education (November 9)
Lecture 17: Demand Constraints in Education (November 14)
Lecture 18: Improving School Quality (November 16)
Film: Educating Yaprak (November 21)
Lecture 19: Youth Unemployment (November 28)
Lecture 20: Lending to the Poor (November 30)
Lecture 21: The Impacts of Microfinance (December 5)
Lectures 22 & 23: Savings Constraints and Productivity (December 7, 12)