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Development Economics - JEM123
Anglický název: Development Economics
Zajišťuje: Institut ekonomických studií (23-IES)
Fakulta: Fakulta sociálních věd
Platnost: od 2023
Semestr: zimní
E-Kredity: 6
Způsob provedení zkoušky: zimní s.:kombinovaná
Rozsah, examinace: zimní s.:2/2, Zk [HT]
Počet míst: neurčen / neurčen (55)
Minimální obsazenost: neomezen
4EU+: ne
Virtuální mobilita / počet míst pro virtuální mobilitu: ne
Stav předmětu: vyučován
Jazyk výuky: angličtina
Způsob výuky: prezenční
Způsob výuky: prezenční
Poznámka: předmět je možno zapsat mimo plán
při zápisu přednost, je-li ve stud. plánu
Garant: doc. PhDr. Michal Bauer, Ph.D.
Třída: Courses for incoming students
Soubory Komentář Kdo přidal
stáhnout DE_sylabus_IES_2021.pdf Sylabus 2021 doc. PhDr. Michal Bauer, Ph.D.
Anotace -
Poslední úprava: doc. PhDr. Michal Bauer, Ph.D. (05.09.2022)
The course covers several major topics in development economics. It focuses on concepts that are important for understanding causes of under-development and poverty. After introducing traditional growth models, particular attention is devoted to the role of technological complementarities, population growth, human capital, institutions, access to finance and psychological effects of poverty. We will also extensively discuss how the existing empirical evidence speaks to some of the key issues. Most of the evidence will be based on field experiments.
Literatura
Poslední úprava: PhDr. Petr Bednařík, Ph.D. (18.11.2021)

See sylabus.
Požadavky ke zkoušce -
Poslední úprava: doc. PhDr. Michal Bauer, Ph.D. (05.09.2022)

Grading

Your final grade will consist of three parts with approximately following weights:

  • Paper summaries: 20%
  • Final exam: 80%
  • Total: 100%
Sylabus -
Poslední úprava: doc. PhDr. Michal Bauer, Ph.D. (05.09.2022)

Eligibility: This is an MA-level course. BA-level students can enroll if they passed Microeconomics II and Macroeconomics II courses at IES (or their equivalent elsewhere) and if there is a free course capacity.

 

Primer text: Ray Debraj (1998): Development economics. Princeton University Press. (available in the library)

 

The text is supplemented by a packet of recent articles and book chapters. You can download them via the intranet (Moodle). It is crucial that you use Moodles (https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=855). It is a platform where you can find important dates, download slides, referenced papers and tasks for exercise sessions. Each of you will get access to the account of this subject. The key is “eldc”.

 

Requirements

 

1. Final exam

 

2. Reading research papers

 

I would like students to read and think about important topics in economic development. In order to get a sense of what the leading questions are and how the leading scholars structure their arguments, nothing (including my lectures) can substitute for reading original papers. Therefore, each topic contains list of suggested readings.

 

In addition, students are expected to read all three research papers before they are covered during the “discussion seminars” (there are two such seminars, one focusing on education and the second one focusing on microfinance). This should allow an informed follow-up discussion about the papers during the seminars.

 

In addition, students are required to prepare a brief written summary of one paper for each topic. The summary will contain a brief description of the motivation of the paper, the research question, why the answer is not obvious ex ante, what intervention is being studied and the main results and implications.  The students should also attempt to make a critical assessment. What did you like in the article? What did you dislike or did not find convincing? Does it miss anything important? Any ideas how it can be extended/improved? Is related to some other related studies or phenomena that you read about?

 

These assignments have to be submitted via the Moodle course website (please no sending via email) and are due on the day before a respective “discussion seminar” at 11pm. These assignments should begin with student’s own name and title of the paper. Students will receive points for submitting each summary, and in addition, one randomly selected summary will receive points, based on their quality.

 

 

Grading

Your final grade will consist of three parts with approximately following weights:

  • Paper summaries: 20%
  • Final exam: 80%
  • Total: 100%

 

 

Outline of the course

(Timing of different lectures and seminars can be found on the course website on Moodle)

 

 Lecture 1: Introduction MB

 

Topics

  • Why to study economic development?
  • Course: approach, structure and requirements
  • Historical and geographical overview
  • Economic lives of the poor

 

Literature

  • Ray Debraj (1998): Development Economics, ch.1-2, pp. 2-42.
  • Todaro and Smith (2004): Economic Development, ch. 1-2, pp.3-71. Library folder.
  • J. Bradford De Long, “Main Themes of Twentieth Century Economic Development,” University of California, Berkeley, pp. 1 – 10.
  • Banerjee, A. and E. Duflo (2006): Economic lives of the poor. Journal of Economic Perspectives
  • Banerjee A. and E. Duflo (2008): What is middle class about the middle classes around the world? Journal of Economic Perspectives

 Lectures 2-3: Traditional growth models and poverty traps MB

Topics

  • Harrod-Domar model
  • Solow model
  • Convergence
  • Poverty traps: savings trap, capital threshold
  • Policy implications of poverty trap models

Literature

  • Ray Debraj (1998): Development Economics, ch.3, pp. 47-90.
  • Sachs, Jeffrey, et al. (2004): Ending Africa' s Poverty Trap, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Issue 1, 2004 pp. 117-130.
  • De Mel, McKenzey, Woodruff (2008): Returns to capital in microenterprises: evidence from a field experiment. Quarterly Journal of Economics

 

 Lecture 4: Technology adoption and complementarities MB

Topics

  • Complementarities and coordination failure
  • Increasing returns

Literature

  • Ray, D. 1998: Development Economics. ch. 5, pp. 131-159.
  • Rosenstein-Rodan (1943): Problems of industrialization of Eastern and Southeastern Europe. The Economic Journal, Vol. 53, No. 210/211. (Jun. - Sep., 1943), pp. 202-211.
  • Todaro and Smith (2004): Economic Development, ch. 5, pp.170-5. Library folder.
  • Dulfo, Kremer and Robinson (2006): Why don't farmers use fertilizers: Evidence from field experiments in Kenya. American economic review

 

Seminar 1 (exercises) – growth models and complementarities (seminar slot) DR

 

 

Lecture 5-6: Population, poverty and under-nutrition MB

 

Topics

  • Population: basic concepts
  • Demographic transition and hidden momentum
  • Poverty measures and evidence
  • Poverty, nutrition and discrimination

 

Literature

  • Ray, D. 1998: Development Economics. ch. 8-9, pp. 249-338. Library folder.
  • Todaro and Smith (2004): Economic development, ch.7. Library folder.
  • Jensen and Miller (2008): Giffen behavior and subsistance consumption. American economic review.
  • Strauss, John (1986): Does better nutrition raise farm productivity? Journal of political economy.
  • Miguel, E. and M. Kremer. 2004. „ Worms : Identifying Impacts on Education and Health in the Presence of Treatment Externalities“. Econometrica 72: 159-217.
  • Field, Robles and Torero: The cognitive link between geography and development: Iodine deficiency and schooling attainment in Tanzania, working paper
  • Sen, A. (1992): Missing women. BMJ 1992;304: 586-7(free registration required).
  • Sen, A. (2002): Missing women- revisited. BMJ 2003;327:1297-1298 (6 December) (free registration required).
  • Miguel (2004): Poverty and witch killing. Review of economic studies.
  • Qian (2008): Missing women and the price of tea in China. Quarterly journal of economics.

 

 

 

Seminar 2 (exercises) – poverty lines, population growth DR

 

 

 

Lecture 7: Education MB

 Topics

  • Benefits of greater education
  • Barriers of increasing education
  • Why are field experiments a powerful tool to figure out what policy interventions work?
  • Evaluations of different types of interventions: supply side and demand side

 Literature

  • Ray, D. 1998: Development Economics. ch. 4, pp. 100-107
  • Psacharopoulos, George (1991): The Economic Impact of Education: Lessons for Policymakers. In Meier and Rauch (eds.) (2005), pp. 189-193.
  • E. Duflo, M. Kremer and R. Glennerster (2006): Using Randomization in Development Economics Research: A Toolkit. In Schultz and Strauss (2008): Handbook of Development Economics, volume 4.  
  • E. Duflo: Schooling and Labor Market Consequences of School Construction in Indonesia: Evidence from an Unusual Policy Experiment
  • Glewwe, P., Ilias, N., & Kremer, M. (2010). Teacher incentives. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2(3), 205–227. 
  • Jensen, R. (2010). The (perceived) returns to education and the demand for schooling. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 125(2), 515-548.
  • Barrera-Osorio, F., Bertrand, M., Linden, L. L., & Perez-Calle, F. (2011). Improving the Design of Conditional Transfer Programs : Evidence from a Randomized Education Experiment in Colombia. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 3(2), 167–195.

 

Seminar 3 (discussion seminar): Education MB

 

Papers to read (also pick one and write a summary before the seminar)

  • Banerjee and Duflo (2011). Poor economics . chapter 1 - Think again, again
  • Glewwe, Kremer and Moulin (2007): Many children left behind? Textbooks and test scores in Kenya.
  • Duflo, E. and R. Hanna (2005): Monitoring works: Getting teachers to come to school. NBER working paper 11880

 

Lecture 9: Microcredit and asymmetric information MB

 Topics

  • The poor: un-bankable?
  • Adverse selection and credit rationing
  • Moral hazard and credit rationing
  • Microcredit innovation and its key characteristics
  • Measuring adverse selection and moral hazard

 

Literature

  • Armendariz DeAghion and Morduch (2005): Economics of microfinance. MIT, ch. 1-2, pp. 1-52. Library folder.
  • Karlan and Zinman (2007): Observing Unobservables: Identifying Information Asymmetries with a Consumer Credit Field Experiment. Econometrica.

 

Seminar 5 (discussion seminar): Microfinance MB

 

Papers to read (also pick one and write a summary before the seminar)

  • Banerjee, Duflo, Glennerster and Kinnan (2009): The miracle of microfinance? Evidence from a randomized evaluation. AEJ: Applied
  • Karlan and Zinman (2011): Microcredit in Theory and Practice: Using Randomized Credit Scoring for Impact Evaluation. Science.
  • Karlan, D. and X. Gine (2006): Group Versus Individual Liability: A Field Experiment in the Philippines. 

 

Lecture 10: Institutions and corruption MB

Topics

  • Overview: corruption and development
  • Parasite and productive enterprises
  • Informal property rights and “mystery of capital”

Literature

  • Pande, Rohini (2008): Understanding Political Corruption in Low Income Countries. In Schultz and Strauss (2008): Handbook of Development Economics, volume 4.
  • Bowles, Durlauf and Hoff (2006): Poverty traps. Princeton University Press. p. 79-94.
  • DeSoto, Fernando (2000): The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else. Basic Books. Ch1, 3.

 

Seminar 6 (exercises) – Microfinance DR

 

 Lecture 11: Psychology of poverty MB

 

Topics

  • Does poverty impair cognitive function?
  • Does thinking about scarcity increase impatience? Does it affect productivity?

 

Literature

  • Mani, S. Mullainathan, E. Shafir, J. Zhao, Poverty impedes cognitive function. Science 341(6149), 976-980 (2013).
  • Haushofer, J., & Shapiro, J. (2013). Household Response to Income Changes: Evidence from an Unconditional Cash Transfer Program in Kenya. Working paper
  • Haushofer, J., & Fehr, E. (2014). On the psychology of poverty. Science (New York, N.Y.), 344(6186), 862–7. doi:10.1126/science.1232491
  • Lerner, J. S., Li, Y., & Weber, E. U. (2013). The financial costs of sadness. Psychological Science, 24(1), 72–9. doi:10.1177/0956797612450302
  • Bartos, V., Bauer, M., Chytilova, J. and Levely, I. (2021): Psychological effects of poverty on time preference. Economic Journal.
  • Kaur, Supreet, Sendhil Mullainathan, Frank Schilbach, and Suanna Oh. 2019. “Does Financial Strain Lower Worker Productivity?” working paper

 

 

Seminar 7 (exercise): Institutions DR

 

If time allows: Lecture 12: Heath: Lessons about pricing from RCTs, MB

 

Topics

  • Demand for health products: shall health products be subsidized?

 

Literature

  • Kremer, M., & Holla, A. (2009). Improving Education in the Developing World : What Have We Learned from Randomized Evaluations ? Annual Review of Economics, 1, 513–42.
  • Cohen, J., and P. Dupas. 2010. “Free Distribution or Cost-Sharing? Evidence from a Randomized Malaria Prevention Experiment*.” Quarterly Journal of Economics 125:1–45.
  • Dupas, Pascaline. 2014. “Short-Run Subsidies and Long-Run Adoption of New Health Products: Evidence from a Field Experiment.” Econometrica 82 (1): 197–228.
  • Fischer, Greg, Dean Karlan, Margaret Mcconnell, and Pia Raffler. 2016. “To Charge or Not to Charge : Evidence from a Health Products Experiment in Uganda.” Working paper.
  • Ashraf, N., Berry, J., & Shapiro, J. M. (2010). Can Higher Prices Stimulate Product Use? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Zambia. American Economic Review, 100, 2383-2413.
Požadavky k zápisu -
Poslední úprava: Ing. Dagmar Schnellerová (20.09.2023)

Kurz JEM123 Development Economics nebude v ZS 2023/2024 vypsán.


Studenti magisterského programu ve specializaci Ekonomie veřejného sektoru a zdravotnictví, kteří tento kurz mají jako povinně specializační, si místo něj mohou zvolit jakýkoliv jiný specializační kurz z ostatních specializací dle nové Karolinky 2023/2024 (jedná se celkem o 18 různých kurzů). Alternativně si samozřejmě mohou zapsat tento kurz příští akademický rok, kdy opět bude vypsán.

Pokud takovýto kurz už mají absolvován jako povinně volitelný, může jim být rovněž uznán jako specializační, nicméně pak se jeho kredity nebudou počítat do požadovaných 24 kreditů za povinně volitelné kurzy a je nutné případně absolvovat další povinně volitelný kurz.

Pro započtení jiného specializačního kurzu místo JEM123 Development Economics nejsou ze strany studentů potřeba žádné kroky, uznání proběhne přímo garantem studia v rámci kontroly studijních povinností před Státní závěrečnou zkouškou na konci magisterského programu.

V případě dotazů se obracejte na garanta magisterského programu Doc. Adama Geršla.
 
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