Department of Economics

Jorge Agüero

Teaching

Econ 261. Contemporaneous Development Strategies

Spring 2009

Syllabus | Blog | Handouts | Referee reports | Additional material

Syllabus

Syllabus [pdf].

Handouts

  • Poverty and inequality: [pdf].
  • Polarization: [pdf] and [pdf].
  • Poverty dynamics: slides and [pdf] and [pdf] and [pdf] and [pdf] and [pdf].
  • Intrahh [pdf] and [pdf]

    Referee reports

    First referee report (due April 28)
    Second referee report (due May 28)

    You can choose any paper from below for your reports:

    • Marcous, Schady and Vakis (2008) "Cash Transfers, Behavioral Changes, and Cognitive Development in
      Early Childhood: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment"[.pdf]
    • Almond, Edlund, Li and Zhang (2008) "Long-Term Effects of Early-Life Development: Evidence from the 1959-1961 China Famine" [.pdf]

    Additional material

    To be posted.

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