Graduate Development Economics — Spring 2024
This course covers current research topics and methods in Development Economics. Itis appropriate for Ph.D. students in Economics and related fields.
Graduate Development Economics — Spring 2023
This course covers current research topics and methods in Development Economics. Itis appropriate for Ph.D. students in Economics and related fields.
Issues in African Economic Development — Spring 2023
This course will examine leading issues in development economics, with afocus on Sub-Saharan Africa. This course will also explore the empirical methods used torigorously assess the impact of international development and anti-poverty programs.
Graduate Development Economics – Spring 2022
This course covers current research topics and methods in Development Economics. Itis appropriate for Ph.D. students in Economics and related fields.
Issues in African Economic Development – Spring 2022
This course will examine leading issues in development economics, with afocus on Sub-Saharan Africa. This course will also explore the empirical methods used torigorously assess the impact of international development and anti-poverty programs.
Issues in African Economic Development – Spring 2021
This course will examine leading issues in development economics, with a focus on Sub-Saharan Africa. This course will also explore the empirical methods used to rigorously assess the impact of international development and anti-poverty programs.
Graduate Development Economics – Spring 2021
This course covers current research topics and methods in Development Economics. It is appropriate for Ph.D. students in Economics and related fields.
Graduate Development Economics – Spring 2020
This course covers leading research issues in Development Economics, with a particular focus on human capital, psychology and economics, political economy, and research design topics. It is taught at a level appropriate for Ph.D. students in Economics, Agricultural and Resource Economics, and related fields.
Graduate Development Economics – Spring 2019
This course covers leading research issues in Development Economics, with a particular focus on macroeconomic growth empirics, psychology and economics, political economy, and human capital topics. It is taught at a level appropriate for Ph.D. students in Economics and related fields. (Co-taught with Prof. Supreet Kaur.)
Issues in African Economic Development – Spring 2019
This course will examine leading issues in development economics, with a focus on how they relate to Sub-Saharan Africa. This course will also explore the empirical methods used to rigorously measure the impact of development and anti-poverty programs.
Issues in African Economic Development – Fall 2019
This course will examine leading issues in development economics, with a focus on how they relate to Sub-Saharan Africa. This course will also explore the empirical methods used to rigorously measure the impact of development and anti-poverty programs.
Graduate Development Economics – Spring 2018
This course covers leading research issues in Development Economics, with a particular focus on macroeconomic growth empirics, psychology and economics, political economy, and human capital topics. It is taught at a level appropriate for Ph.D. students in Economics and related fields. (Co-taught with Prof. Supreet Kaur.)
Issues in African Economic Development – Spring 2018
This course will examine leading issues in development economics, with a focus on how they relate to Sub-Saharan Africa. This course will also explore the empirical methods used to rigorously measure the impact of development and anti-poverty programs.
Transparent and Open Social Science Research – Summer 2017
Explore the causes of limited transparency in social science research, and tools to make your own work more open and reproducible. Demand is growing for evidence-based policy making, but there is growing recognition in the social science community that limited transparency and openness in research have contributed to widespread problems. Explore transparency issues in social …
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Graduate Development Economics – Spring 2017
This course covers leading research issues in Development Economics, with a particular focus on macroeconomic growth empirics, political economy, and human capital topics. It is taught at a level appropriate for Ph.D. students in Economics and related fields.
Issues in African Economic Development – Spring 2017
This course will examine leading issues in development economics, with a focus on how they relate to Sub-Saharan Africa. This course will also explore the empirical methods used to rigorously measure the impact of development and anti-poverty programs.
Research Transparency Methods in the Social Sciences – Spring 2015
This interdisciplinary methodology course introduces students to tools and resources in the conduct of transparent research within all social science fields, with specific applications to Economics, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, and Demography. The class addresses principles, issues, and practices around research openness and integrity including: meta-analysis, multiple testing corrections, differential privacy data concerns and frontier …
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Graduate Development Economics – Spring 2015
This course covers leading research issues in Development Economics, with a particular focus on macroeconomic growth empirics, political economy, and human capital topics. It is taught at the level appropriate for Ph.D. students in Economics and related fields.
Development Economics Seminar – Fall 2014
Weekly seminar featuring ongoing research in international development economics. Mondays 4-5:30 in Evans Hall 648: Calendar
Issues in African Economic Development – Spring 2014
This course will examine leading issues in development economics, with a focus on how they relate to Sub-Saharan Africa. This course will also explore the empirical methods used to rigorously measure the impact of development and anti-poverty programs.
Graduate Development Economics – Spring 2014
This course covers leading research issues in Development Economics, with a particular focus on macroeconomic growth empirics, political economy, and human capital topics. It is taught at the level appropriate for Ph.D. students in Economics and related fields.
Development Economics Seminar – Fall 2013
The Development Economics seminar hosts speakers presenting their recent research on both empirical and theoretical topics in the field of Development Economics. Speakers often include prominent scholars from around the U.S. and the world.
Ph.D. Student Development Economics Research Lunch Workshop – Spring 2013
The weekly student lunch workshop provides opportunities for graduate students in Economics, Agricultural and Resource Economics, and other related fields to present their ongoing research to faculty and other students in the development economics community on campus.
Global Poverty and Impact Evaluation, with African Case Studies – Spring 2013
This course explores the tools available for rigorously measuring the impact of international development and anti-poverty programs. The course describes a range of empirical methods, approaches and challenges, and illustrates them using a series of African case studies. Undergraduates enroll in 174, graduate students in 274. Note: The lecture numbers on the Youtube playlist do …
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Development Economics Seminar – Spring 2013
The Development Economics seminar hosts speakers presenting their recent research on both empirical and theoretical topics in the field of Development Economics. Speakers often include prominent scholars from around the U.S. and the world. For a list of this week's Economics seminars, click here.
Graduate Development Economics – Spring 2013
This course covers leading research issues in Development Economics, with a particular focus on macroeconomic growth empirics, political economy, and human capital topics. It is taught at the level appropriate for Ph.D. students in Economics and related fields.
Issues in African Economic Development – Spring 2012
This course examines major current issues in development economics, with a focus on how they relate to Sub-Saharan Africa. The course also emphasizes the application of econometric evaluation methods in development economics. The course is divided into two parts: I. Economic Theories and Methods, II. History, Institutions and Politics.
Graduate Political Economy – Spring 2012
This course covers leading research issues in Political Economy, with a particular focus on empirical methods and econometric applications. It is taught at the level appropriate for Ph.D. students in Economics, Political Science and related fields. (Fred Finan and Ted Miguel co-taught this course.)