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Poslední úprava: Mgr. Anna Papariga (15.09.2022)
The goal of this course is to expose you to the research frontier in applied microeconomic research in development economics, particular empirical and policy oriented research, and research that involves field experiments. After taking this course, you should be able to identify promising research questions, and know methodological challenges and best practices in this field.
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Poslední úprava: Mgr. Anna Papariga (15.09.2022)
The following book provides a helpful overview and introduction to the topic: - Banerjee, Abihijit, and Esther Duflo. 2011: Poor Economics
The needed econometrics can be read up in: - Angrist, Josh, and Joern-Steffen Pischke. 2009: Mostly Harmless Econometrics - Imbens, Guido, and Jeffrey Wooldridge. 2009: Recent Developments in the Econometrics of Program Evaluation, Journal of Economic Literature 47 (1): 5-86 - Imbens, Guido, and Susan Athey. 2017: The Econometrics of Randomized Experiments, A. Banerjee and E. Duflo (eds.), Handbook of Economic Field Experiments Vol. 1 - Bruhn, Melanie, and David McKenzie. 2009: In Pursuit of Balance: Randomization in Practice in Development Field Experiments,” AEJ: Applied Economics 1 (4): 200-232. A practical introduction into the methodology of Randomized Controlled Trials that will be referenced a few times is - Glennester, Rachel, and Kudzai Takavarasha. 2013: Running Randomized Evaluations: A Practical Guide, Princeton Press,
The following link and book is great for setting the frame for the phenomena we study, for those who wish to immerse themselves deeper in the topic: - www.gapminder.org/dollar-street/?topic=families - Hartmann, Betsy, and Kames K. Boyce. 2013: A Quiet Violence: View from A Bangladeshi Village
* indicates required reading (R) indicates articles that will be presented by students (and summarised by other students each week). From the viewpoint of examinations, these papers are required reading too. |
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Poslední úprava: Mgr. Anna Papariga (15.09.2022)
Evaluation of this course will be based on a term paper (50%), in which you identify a research question and propose a data-collection and an identification strategy to answer the question, two paper presentations (each ca. 10 minutes followed by 10 minutes Q&A - each 10%), one assignment in which you replicate the results of a paper (20%), and brief summaries of one paper before classes that a fellow course participant will present, starting from week 4 (around ½ page – 10%).
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Poslední úprava: Mgr. Anna Papariga (15.09.2022)
Week 1: Introduction
- Banerjee, Abhijit, and Esther Duflo. 2007: The Economic Lives of the Poor, Journal of Economic Perspectives 21(1): 141-168 * - Banerjee, Abhijit, and Esther Duflo. 2008: What is Middle Class about the Middle Classes around the World?, Journal of Economic Perspectives 22 (2): 3-28 - Mankiw, N. Gregory, David Romer, and David N. Weil. 1992: A Contribution to the Empirics of Economic Growth, Quarterly Journal of Economics 107 (2): 407-437* - Dollar, David, Tatjana Kleineberg, and Art Kraay. 2016: Growth still is good for the Poor, European Economic Review 81: 68-85 - Ravallion, Martin. 2005: Inequality is Bad for the Poor, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 3677 - Caselli, Francesco. 2005: Accounting for Cross-Country Income Differences, Chapter 9 in Handbook of Economic Growth Vol. 1, Part A: 679-741 - Caselli, Francesco. 2016: Accounting for Cross-Country Income Differences: Ten Years Later, World Development Report Background Paper, Governance and the Law - Jayachandran, Seema. 2021: How Economic Development Influences the Environment, NBER Working Paper 29191 - Miguel, Edward, and Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak. 2021: The Economics of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Poor Countries, NBER Working Paper 29339
Week 2: Poverty Traps
- Bandiera, Oriana, Robin Burgess, Narayan Das, Selim Gulesci, Imran Rasul, and Munshi Sulaiman. 2017: Labor Markets and Poverty in Village Economies, Quarterly Journal of Economics 132(2): 811-870 * - Balboni, Clare, Oriana Bandiera, Robin Burgess, Maitreesh Ghatak and Anton Heil. 2019: Why do people stay poor?, Quarterly Journal of Economics 137(2): 785-844 - Banerjee, Abhijit, Esther Duflo, Nathanael Goldberg, Dean Karlan, Robert Osei, William Parienté, Jeremy Shapiro, Bram Thuysbaert, and Christopher Udry. (2015.c): A multifaceted program causes lasting progress for the very poor: Evidence from six countries, Science348 (6236): 772 - Kraay, Art, and David McKenzie. 2014: Do Poverty Traps Exist? Assessing the Evidence, Journal of Economic Perspectives 28 (3): 127-148 - Haushofer, Johannes. 2019: Is there a Psychological Poverty Trap?, Working Paper, Stockholm University - Rodrik, Dani. 2013: Unconditional Convergence in Manufacturing, Quarterly Journal of Economics 128 (1): 165-204
Week 3: Microfinance
- DeMel, Suresh, David McKenzie, and Christopher Woodruff. 2008: Returns to Capital in Microentreprises: Evidence from a Field Experiment, Quarterly Journal of Economics 123 (4): 1329-1372 - Keniston, Daniel. 2011: Experimental vs. Structural Estimates of the Return to Capital in Microentreprises, Working Paper, Yale - Banerjee, Abhijit, Esther Duflo, Rachel Glennester, and Cynthia Kinnan. 2015: The Miracle of Microfinance? Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation, AEJ: Applied Economics 7 (1): 22-53 * - Banerjee, Abhijit., Dean Karlan, and Jonathan Zinman. 2015.b: Six randomized evaluations of microcredit: Introduction and further steps, AEJ: Applied Economics. 7 (1): 1–21 - Meager, Rachel. 2019: Understanding the Average Impact of Microcredit Expansions: A Bayesian Hierarchical Analysis of Seven Randomized Experiments, AEJ: Applied Economics 11 (1): 57-91 - Meager, Rachel. 2020: Aggregating Distributional Treatment Effects: A Bayesian Hierarchical Analysis of the Microcredit Literature, American Econ.Rev. (forthcoming) - Breza, Emily, and Cynthia Kinnan. 2021: Measuring the Equilibrium Impacts of Credit: Evidence from the Indian Microfinance Crisis, Quarterly Journal of Economics 136 (3): 1447-1497
Week 4: Credit Markets and Property Rights.
- Karlan, Dean, and Jonathan Zinman. 2009: Observing Unobservables: Identifying Information Asymmetries with a Consumer Credit Field Experiment, Econometrica 77 (6): 1993-2008 * - Bryan, Gharad, Dean Karlan, and Jonathan Zinman. 2015: Referrals: Peer Screening and Enforcement in a Consumer Credit Field Experiment, AEJ: Microeconomics 7 (3): 174-204 - Gine, Xavier, and Dean Karlan. 2014: Group versus individual liability: Short and long term evidence from Philippine microcredit lending groups, Journal of Development Economics 107: 65-83 * - Cramer, Kim Fe. 2022: Bank Presence and Health, Working Paper, LSE - Dupas, Pascaline, and Jonathan Robinson. 2013: Savings Constraints and Microenterprise Development: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Kenya. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 5 (1): 163-92. - Afzal, Uzma, Giovanna d’Adda, Marcel Fafchamps, Simon Quinn, and Farah Said. 2018: Two Sides of the Same Rupee? Comparing Demand for Microcredit and Microsaving in a Framed Field Experiment in Rural Pakistan, Economic Journal 128 (614): 2161-2190 - Haushofer, Johannes, Matthieu Chemin, Chaning Jang, and Justin Abraham. 2020: Economic and Psychological Effects of Health Insurance and Cash Transfers: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Kenya, Journal of Development Economics 144 (R) - Augsburg, Britta, Ralph De Haas, Heike Harmgart, and Costas Meghir. 2015. “The Impacts of Microcredit: Evidence from Bosnia and Herzegovina.” AEJ: Applied Economics 7 (1): 183–203. (R) - Field, Erica, Rohini Pande, John Papp, and Natalia Rigol. 2013: Does the classic microfinance model discourage entrepreneurship among the poor? Experimental evidence from India”, AEJ: Applied Economics. 103 (6): 2196–2226 (R) - Karlan, Dean, Robert Osei, Isaac Osei-Akoto, and Chrostopher Udry. 2014: Agricultural Decisions after Relaxing Credit and Risk Constraints, Quarterly Journal of Economics 129 (2): 597-652 (R) - Banerjee, Abhijit, and Esther Duflo. 2014: Do Firms Want to Borrow More? Testing Credit Constraints, Review of Economic Studies 81 (2): 572-607 (R)
Week 5: Education
- Muralidharan, Khartik. 2017: Field Experiments in Education in Developing Countries, in Handbook of Field Experiments Vol 2, Eds. A. Banerjee and E. Duflo, Elsevier - Duflo, Esther. 2001: Schooling and Labor Market Consequences School Construction in Indonesia, American Economic Review 91 (4): 795-813 * - Prashant Bharadwaj, Leah K Lakdawala, Nicholas Li 2020: Perverse Consequences of Well Intentioned Regulation: Evidence from India’s Child Labor Ban, Journal of the European Economic Association 18 (3): 1158–1195 * - Romero, Mauricio, Justin Sandefur, and Wayne Aaron Sandholtz. 2020: Outsourcing Education: Experimental Evidence from Liberia. American Economic Review 110(2): 364-400 - Heath, Rachel, and A. Mushfiq Mobarak. 2015: Manufacturing growth and the lives of Bangladeshi women, Journal of Development Economics, 115: 1-15 - Baird, Sarah, Craig McIntosh, and Berk Özler. 2011: Cash or Condition? Evidence from a Randomized Cash Transfer Program, Quarterly Journal of Economics 126 (4): 1709-1753. (R) - Macours, Karen, and M. Caridad Araujo. 2021: Education, Income and Mobility: Experimental Impacts of Childhood Exposure to Progresa after 20 Years, Working Paper, Paris School of Economics (R) - Duflo, Esther, Pascaline Dupas, and Michael Kremer. 2021: The Impact of Free Secondary Education: Experimental Evidence from Ghana. NBER Working Paper 28937 (R) - Atkin, David. 2016: Endogenous Skill Acquisition and Export Manufacturing in Mexico, American Economic Review, 106 (8): 2046-85. (R) - Almeida, Rita, Sarojini Hirschleifer, David McKenzie, and Cristobal Ridao-Cano. 2016: The Impact of Vocational Training for the Unemployed: Experimental Evidence from Turkey, Economic Journal, 126(597): 2115-2146. (R) - Muralidharan, Karthik, Abhijeet Singh, and Alejandro J. Ganimian. 2019: Disrupting Education? Experimental Evidence on Technology-Aided Instruction in India, American Economic Review 109 (4): 1426-1460. (R)
Week 6: Health
- Dupas, Pascaline, and Edward Miguel. 2017: Impacts and Determinants of Health Levels in Low-Income Countries, in Handbook of Field Experiments Vol 2, Eds. A. Banerjee and E. Duflo, Elsevier - Kremer, Michael, and Edward Miguel. 2004: Worms: Identifying Impacts on Education and Health in the Presence of Treatment Externalities, Econometrica 72 (1), 159-217 - Baird, Sarah, Joan Hamory Hicks, Michael Kremer, and Edward Miguel. 2016: Worms at Work: Long-run Impacts of a Child Health Investment, Quarterly Journal of Economics 131 (4): 1637-1680 * - Ozier, Owen. 2018: Exploiting Externalities to Estimate the Long-Term Effects of Early Childhood Deworming, AEJ: Applied Economics 10 (3): 235-262 - Davey, Calum, Alexander M. Aiken, Richard J. Hayes, James R. Hargreaves. 2015: Re-analysis of health and educational impacts of a school-based deworming programme in western Kenya: a statistical replication of a cluster quasi-randomized stepped-wedge trial, International Journal of Epidemiology 44 (5): 1581–1592 - Jullien, Sophie, David Sinclair, and Paul Garner. 2017: The impact of mass deworming programmes on schooling and economic development: an appraisal of long-term studies, International Journal of Epidemiology 45 (6): 2140-2153 * - Baird, Sarah, Joan Hamory Hicks, Michael Kremer and Edward Miguel. 2017: Commentary: Assessing long-run deworming impacts on education and economic outcomes: a comment on Jullien, Sinclair and Garner (2016), International Journal of Epidemiology 45 (6): 2140-2153 - Duflo, Esther, Abhijit Banerjee, Amy Finkelstein, Lawrence Katz, Benjamin Olken, and Anja Sautmann. 2020: In Praise of Moderation: Suggestions for the Scope and Use of Pre-Analysis Plans for RCTs in Economics. NBER Working Paper No. 26993 - Field, Erica, Omar Robles, and Maximo Torero. 2009: Iodine Deficiency and Schooling Attainment in Tanzania, AEJ: Applied Economics 1 (4): 140-69 (R) - Ashraf, Nava, Erica Field, and Jean Lee. 2014. "Household Bargaining and Excess Fertility: An Experimental Study in Zambia." American Economic Review, 104(7): 2210-37. (R) - Joshi S, Schultz TP (2013) Family Planning and Women’s and Children’s Health: Long-Term Consequences of an Outreach Program in Matlab, Bangladesh. Demography 50: 149–180. (R) - Bleakley, Hoyt. 2010: Malaria Eradication in the Americas: A Retrospective Analysis of Childhood Exposure. American Economic J.: Applied Economics, 2 (2): 1-45. (R) - Alix Peterson Zwane, Jonathan Zinman, Eric Van Dusen, William Pariente, Clair Null, Edward Miguel, Michael Kremer, Dean S. Karlan, Richard Hornbeck, Xavier Giné, Esther Duflo, Florencia Devoto, Bruno Crepon, and Abhijit Banerjee. 2011: Being surveyed can change later behavior and related parameter estimates, PNAS 108 (5): 1821-1826
Week 7: Infrastructure
- Asher, Sam, and Paul Novosad. 2020: Rural Roads and Local Economic Development, American Economics Review 110(3): 797-823 * - Adukia, Anjali, Sam Asher, and Paul Novosad. 2020: Educational Investment Responses to Economic Opportunity: Evidence from Indian Road Construction, AEJ: Applied Economics 12(1): 348-376 - Anderson, Michael L. 2008: Multiple Inference and Gender Differences in the Effects of Early Intervention: A Reevaluation of the Abecedarian, Perry Preschool, and Early Training Projects, Journal of the American Statistical Association 103 (484): 1481–1495.* - Kenneth Lee, Edward Miguel, and Catherine Wolfram Year. 2019: Experimental Evidence on the Economics of Rural Electrification, Working Paper, Berkeley * - Motohashi, Kazuki. 2022: Unintended Consequences of Sanitation: Negative Externalities on Water Quality and Health in India. Working Paper, Tufts University. - Ghani, Ejaz, Arti Grover Goswami, and William R. Kerr. 2016: Highway to Success: The Impact of the Golden Quadrilateral Project for the Location and Performance of Indian Manufacturing, Economic Journal 126 (591): 317-357 - Imbens, Guido. 2018: Optimal Bandwidth Choice for the Regression Discontinuity Estimator, Review of Economic Studies 79: 933–959. - Dinkelman, Taryn. 2011. The Effects of Rural Electrification on Employment: New Evidence from South Africa, American Economic Review, 101 (7): 3078-3108. (R) - Jensen, Robert. 2007: The Digital Provide: Information (Technology), Market Performance, and Welfare in the South Indian Fisheries Sector, Quarterly Journal of Economics 122 (3): 879–924 (R) - Brooks, Wyatt, and Kevin Donovan (2020): Eliminating Uncertainty in Market Access: The Impact of new Bridges in Rural Nicaragua, Econometrica 88(5): 1965-1997(R)
Week 8: Small Firms
- Jayachandran, Seema. 2021. Microentrepreneurship in Developing Countries, Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, pp 11-31 - McKenzie, David. 2017. "Identifying and Spurring High-Growth Entrepreneurship: Experimental Evidence from a Business Plan Competition." American Economic Review, 107 (8): 2278-2307. * - Ghanem, Dalia, Sarojini Hirschleifer, and Karen Ortiz-Becerra. 2021: Testing Attrition Bias in Field Experiments, Working Paper, UC Davis - Millan, Teresa Molina, and Karen Macours. 2021. “Attrition in Randomized Control Trials: Using Tracking Information to Correct Bias.” Working Paper, PSE. - Behagel, Luc, Bruno Crepon, Marc Gurgand, and Thomas Le Barbanchon. 2015: Please Call Again: Correcting Nonresponse Bias in Treatment Effect Models, Review of Economics and Statistics, 97: 1070–1080. - Lee, David. 2009: Training, Wages, and Sample Selection: Estimating Sharp Bounds on Treatment Effects, Review of Economic Studies 76 (3): 1071-1102 - Banerjee, Abhijit, Greg Fisher, Dean Karlan, and Benjamin Roth. 2022: Does the Invisible Hand efficiently guide entry and exit? Evidence from a Vegetable Market Experiment in India. NBER Working Paper 30360 - de Mel, Suresh, McKenzie, David and Christopher Woodruff. 2013: The Demand for, and Consequences of, Formalization among Informal Firms in Sri Lanka, AEJ: Applied Economics, 5 (2): 122-150 * - Bassi, Vittorio, Raffaela Muoio, Tommaso Porzio, Ritwika Sen, and Esau Tugume. 2022: Achieving Scale Collectively. Econometrica (forthcoming) (R) - de Mel, Suresh , McKenzie, David and Christopher Woodruff. 2019: Labor Drops: Experimental Evidence on the Return to Additional Labor in Microenterprises, AEJ: Applied Economics, 11 (1): 202-35 (R) - Jensen, Robert, and Nolan H. Miller. 2018. "Market Integration, Demand, and the Growth of Firms: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in India." American Economic Review, 108 (12): 3583-3625. (R) - Brooks, Wyatt, Kevin Donovan, and Terrence Johnson. 2018: Mentors or Teachers? Microentreprise Training in Kenya, AEJ Applied Economics 10 (4): 196-221 (R)
Week 9: Large Firms
- Chang-Tai Hsieh & Benjamin A. Olken. 2014: The Missing "Missing Middle", Journal of Economic Perspectives 28 (3): 89-108 - Bloom, Nicholas, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen. 2012: The organization of firms across countries, Quarterly Journal of Economics 127 (4): 1663-1705 - Bloom, Nicholas, Benn Eifert, David McKenzie, Aprajit Mahajan, and John Roberts (2013): Does Management Matter? Evidence from India, Quarterly Journal of Economics 128 (1), 1-51 * - Bloom, Nicholas, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen. 2016: Management as a Technology? Working Paper, Stanford - Bandiera, Oriana, Lemos, Renata, Prat, Andrea and Raffaella Sadun. 2018: Managing the Family Firm: Evidence from CEOs at Work, Review of Financial Studies 31 (5): 1605-1653. - Lane, Nathan. 2021: Manufacturing Revolutions: Industrial Policy and Industrialization in South Korea, Working Paper, Monash University (R) - Bau, Natalie, and Adrien Matray. 2020: Misallocation and Capital Market Integration: Evidence from India. NBER Working Paper 27955 (R)
Week 10: Labor Markets and Migration
- Blattman, Christopher, and Stefan Dercon. 2018: The Impacts of Industrial and Entrepreneurial Work on Income and Health: Experimental Evidence from Ethiopia, AEJ: Applied Economics, 10 (3): 1-38 * - Akram, Agha Ali, Shyamal Chowdhury, and Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak. 2018: Effect of Emigration on Rural Labor Markets, Working Paper, Yale * - Boudreau, Laura, Rachel Heath, and Tyler McCormick, 2019: Migrants, Information, and Working Conditions in Bangladeshi Garment Factories, Working Paper, Columbia University - Clemens, Michael. 2011: Economics and Emigration: Trillion-Dollar Bills on the Sidewalk?, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 25(3): 83-106. - Munshi, Kaivan, and Mark Rosenzweig. 2016: Networks and Misallocation: Insurance, Migration, and the Rural-Urban Wage Gap, American Economic Review, 106 (1): 46-98. (R) - Cook, Justin, and Manisha Shah. 2020: Aggregate Effects of Public Works: Evidence from India, Review of Economics and Statistics (forthcoming) (R) - De Janvry, Alain, Kyle Emerick, Marco Gonzalez-Navarro, and Elisabeth Sadoulet. 2015: Delinking Land Rights from Land Use: Certification and Migration in Mexico, American Economic Review 105 (10): 3125-3149 (R) - Bolhuis, Marijn, Swapnika Rachapalli, and Diego Restuccia. 2021: Misallocation in Indian Agriculture. NBER Working Paper 29363 (R)
Week 11: Gender/Discrimination
- Duflo, Esther. 2012. Women Empowerment and Economic Development, Journal of Economic Literature, 50 (4): 1051-79. - Bertrand, Marriane, and Esther Duflo. 2017: Field Experiments on Discrimination, in Handbook of Field Experiments, Eds. A. Banerjee and E. Duflo, Elsevier - Giuliano, Paola. 2020: Gender and Culture, Oxford Review of Economic Policy 36(4): 944-961 - Jayachandran, Seema, and Rohini Pande. 2017: Why Are Indian Children So Short? The Role of Birth Order and Son Preference, American Economic Review, 107 (9): 2600-2629. * - Beaman, Lori, Raghabendra Chattopadhay, Esther Duflo, Rohini Pande, and Petia Topalova. 2009: Powerful Women: Does Exposure Reduce Bias?, Quarterly Journal of Economics 124 (4): 1497-1540 - Macchiavello, Rocco, Andreas Menzel, Atonu Rabbani, and Christopher Woodruff. 2020: Challenges of Change: Training Women to Supervise in the Bangladeshi Garment Sector, Working Paper - Dhar, Diva, Tarun Jain, and Seema Jayachandran. 2022: Reshaping Adolescents Gender Attitudes: Evidence from a School-Based Experiment in India, American Economic Review 112(3): 899-927 * - Borker, Girija. 2021: Safety First: Perceived Risk of Street Harassment and Educational Choices of Women, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 9731 - draliceevans.com/post/why-are-southern-north-eastern-indian-states-more-gender-equal
Further topics and papers
- Young, Alwyn. 2019: Channeling Fisher: Randomization Tests and the Statistical Insignificance of Seemingly Significant Experimental Results, Quarterly Journal of Economics 134 (2): 557-598 * - Baird, Sarah, J. Aislinn Bohren, Craig McIntosh, and Berk Ozler. 2018: Optimal Design of Experiments in the Presence of Interference, The Review of Economics and Statistics 100 (5): 844–860. - McKenzie, David, (2012), Beyond baseline and follow-up: The case for more T in experiments, Journal of Development Economics 99 (2): 210-221 - List, John, A. Shaikh, Y. Xu. 2016: Multiple Hypothesis Testing in Experimental Economics NBER Working Paper 21875 - Glennerster, Rachel. 2016: The practicalities of running randomized evaluations: partnerships, measurement, ethics, and transparency, Banerjee, Duflo (Eds.), Handbook of Development Economics, Elsevier, North Holland (2016) - Rosenzweig, Mark, and Christopher Udry. 2020: External Validity in a Stochastic World: Evidence from Low-Income Countries, Review of Economic Studies 87(1), pp:343-381 - Yeh, Chris, Anthony Perez, George Azzari, Anne Driscoll, Zhongyi Tang, David Lobell, Stefano Ermon, and Marshall Burke. 2020: Using publicly available satellite imagery and deep learning to understand economic wellbeing in Africa. Nature Communications 2020 (11), 2583. - Burke, Marshall, Nathan Ratledge, Gabe Cadamuro, Brandon de la Questa, and Matthieu Stigler. 2021: Using satellite imagery and machine learning to estimate the livelihood impact of electricity access, NBER Working Paper 29237 - Gechter, Michael, and Nick Tsivanidis. 2020: Spatial Spillovers from Urban Renewal: Evidence from the Mumbai Mills Redevelopment. Working Paper, Pennsylvania State University - Wang, Sherrie, Francois Waldner, David B. Lobell. 2022: Unlocking large-scale crop field delineation in smallholder farming systems with transfer learning and weak supervision, Working Paper, University of Berkeley, arXiv:2201.04771 - Baragwanath, Kathryn, Ran Goldblatt, and Gordon Hanson, and Amit Khandelwal. 2021: Detecting Urban Markets with Satellite Imagery: An Application to India, Journal of Urban Economics 125
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