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What is development economics
What is development economics 1,
What should the aim of developmen...,
What are the advantages of target...
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Empirical considerations
Why does correlation not imply ca...,
Why is it important to implement ...,
What do we call omitted confounde...
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Poverty
What is poverty 1,
Why care about poverty 2,
Why is accurate measurement impor...
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Poverty lines in Theory and Practice (Martin Ravallion)
What is the food energy intake fe...,
Q7 what are ravallion s main crit...,
What is the cost of basic needs c...
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The economic lives of the Poor (Banerjee and Duflo)
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Why do banerjee and duflo use con...,
What methodological limitations d...
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The Sensitivity of Malawian Poverty Estimates to Definitions, Data, and Assumptions” by Ulrik Beck, Richard Mussa, and Karl Pauw,
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Why is malawi used as a case study 2,
What toolkit is used for poverty ...
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Development as Freedom by Amartya Sen
How does amartya sen define devel...,
Q2 what are unfreedoms according ...,
Q3 what distinguishes sen s appro...
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Inequality
Why is inequality important over ...,
Is global inequality rising or fa...,
What are the different measures o...
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Nutrition and Health
Is poverty hunger 1,
What is the original thought abou...,
What is the so called s shape gra...
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Putting a band-aid on a corpse, Banerjee, A. V., Duflo, E., & Glennerster, R. (2008)
Core problem and motivation 1,
Q2 why is absenteeism a major obs...,
Methodology and data 3
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Cohen, J., & Dupas, P. (2010). Free distribution or cost-sharing?
Central research question 1,
Data and methodology 2,
Q3 how was usage measured 3
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WORMS: IDENTIFYING IMPACTS ON EDUCATION AND HEALTH IN THE PRESENCE OF TREATMENT EXTERNALITIES, BY EDWARD MIGUEL AND MICHAEL KREMER
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Education
Education an empty shell 1,
Describe the naive demand 2,
Outline the indonesian experiment...
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School and labor market experiment Indonesia, Esther Duflo.pdf
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PROGRESA, T. PAUL SCHULTZ
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The Demographic and fertility transition
Who drives the population growth 1,
Why do birth rates drop more slow...,
Is a large population bad for dev...
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“Do Teenagers Respond to HIV Risk Information? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Kenya, Dupas
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Duflo, E., Dupas, P., & Kremer, M. (2015). Education, HIV, and Early Fertility: Experimental Evidence from Kenya.
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Angrist, Lavy & Schlosser (2010), “New Evidence on the Causal Link Between the Quantity and Quality of Children”
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La Ferrara, Chong & Duryea (2008), “Soap Operas and Fertility: Evidence from Brazil”.
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Risk
Poverty as vulnerability or despe...,
Are most people risk averse 2,
Does risk reduce wellbeing 3
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Cole & Xiong (2017), “Agricultural Insurance and Economic Development”.
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Paolo Falco (2014), “Does risk matter for occupational choices? Experimental evidence from an African labour market”.
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Caria & Falco (2018), “Does the Risk of Poverty Reduce Happiness?”.
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Finance
Can the poor borrow their way out...,
Why are interest rates so high fo...,
Loan sharks vs banks 3
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Banerjee et al. (2015), “The Miracle of Microfinance? Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation”.
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iné and Karlan (2014), “Group versus Individual Liability: Short and Long Term Evidence from Philippine Microcredit Lending Groups”.
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Dupas & Robinson (2012), “Savings Constraints and Microenterprise Development: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Kenya”.
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Ashraf, Karlan & Yin (2006), “Tying Odysseus to the Mast: Evidence from a Commitment Savings Product in the Philippines”
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Labour
When we talk jobs in ademia what ...,
Are informal jobs a good thing 2,
Why informal firms does not smash...
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Abebe et al. (2021), “Frictions and Freedoms: The Role of Information in Job Matching for Ethiopian Youth”
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Barriers to Search and Hiring in Urban Labour Markets
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La Porta & Shleifer (2014), “Informality and Development”
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Caria et al. (2020), “Anonymity, Distance, and the Origins of Matching Frictions in the Labor Market: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Urban Ethiopia”,
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Caria et al. (2021), “The Selection of Talent: Experimental and Structural Evidence from Ethiopia”
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Firms
A world of aspiring entrepreneurs 1,
What constrains business 2,
What does the literature tells us...
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Hsieh & Olken (2014), "The Missing 'Missing Middle'"
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Fafchamps et al. (2014), "Microenterprise Growth and the Flypaper Effect: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Ghana"
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McKenzie (2020), “Small Business Training to Improve Management Practices in Developing Countries: Reassessing the Evidence for ‘Training Doesn’t Work’”,
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de Mel, McKenzie & Woodruff (2008), "Returns to Capital in Microenterprises: Evidence from a Field Experiment"
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International trade
Is international trade 1,
What covers weak institutions 2,
Is international trade 3
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Review article - Atkin & Khandelwal (2020) — “How Distortions Alter the Impacts of International Trade in Developing Countries”
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Review article - Atkin, D., Khandelwal, A., Boudreau, L., Dix-Carneiro, R., Manelici, I., Medina, P., ... & Startz, M. (2025). International Trade”
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Nunn (2007) — “Relationship-Specificity, Incomplete Contracts, and the Pattern of Trade”
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Institutions and final comments
Even the best designed policies o...,
What is the value of good institu...,
Is development historically pre d...
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Agneman et al. (2023) — “How Scarcity Reduces Trusting Behavior”
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Reinikka & Svensson (2004) — “Local Capture: Evidence from a Central Government Transfer Program in Uganda”
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Acemoglu, Johnson & Robinson (2001) — “The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation”
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Nunn & Wantchekon (2011) — “The Slave Trade and the Origins of Mistrust in Africa”
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