SemesterSpring Semester, 2020
DepartmentInternational Master's Program in Asia-Pacific Studies, First Year International Master's Program in Asia-Pacific Studies, Second Year International Master's Program in Asia-Pacific Studies, Third Year International Master's Program in Asia-Pacific Studies, Fourth Year
Course NamePoverty and Inequality in Era of Urbanization
InstructorSU YU-HSUAN
Credit3.0
Course TypeElective
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Week Date Topic Format Readings Learning hours (including class time)
1 2/18/2020 Introduction, Principles of Economics Lecture Class notes 9
2 2/25/2020 Regression, Evaluation & Stata Lecture Class notes 12
3 3/3/2020 Overview Lecture

  • UN. 2017. "New Urban Agenda."

  • UN. 2019. "World Urbanization Prospects: The 2018 Revision."

  • Banerjee and Duflo. 2007. “Economic lives of the poor.” The Journal of Economic Perspectives.


12
4 3/10/2020 Poverty & Inequality Group presentation & Lecture

  • World Bank. 2015. "A Measured Approach to Ending Poverty and Boosting Shared Prosperity: Concepts, Data, and the Twin Goals."

  • Baum-Snow, Freeman, and Pavan. 2018. "Why Has Urban Inequality Increased?" American Economic Journal: Applied Economics


12
5 3/17/2020 Fertility & Family Planning Group presentation & Lecture

  • Schultz. 1997. “Demand for Children in Low Income Countries.” Handbook of Population and Family Economics.

  • Miller and Babiarz. 2016. "Family Planning Program Effects: Evidence from Microdata." Population and Development Review.

  • Wang, Zhao, and Zhao. 2017. “China’s family planning policies and their labor market consequences.” Journal of Population Economics.

  • Grossman. 2019. "The unintended effects of place based programs: Fertility and health effects of urban empowerment zones." Journal of Health Economics.


12
6 3/24/2020 Mortality Group presentation & Lecture

  • Leigh and Jencks. 2007. "Inequality and mortality: Long-run evidence from a panel of countries." Journal of Health Economics.

  • Ebeling. 2018. "How Has the Lower Boundary of Human Mortality Evolved, and Has It Already Stopped Decreasing?" Demography.


12
7 3/31/2020 Individual research topic discussion     12
8 4/7/2020 Missing Women & Marriage Market Group presentation & Lecture

  • Qian. 2008. “Missing Women and the Price of Tea in China: the Effect of Sex-Specific Earnings on Sex Imbalance.” The Quarterly Journal of Economics.

  • Ebenstein. 2010. “The ‘Missing Girls’ of China and the Unintended Consequences of the One Child Policy.” Journal of Human Resources.

  • Weiss, Yi, and Zhang. 2018. "Cross-Border Marriage Costs and Marriage Behavior: Theory and Evidence." International Economic Review.


12
9 4/14/2020 Migration Group presentation & Lecture

  • Bazzi. 2017. “Wealth Heterogeneity and the Income Elasticity of Migration.” American Economic Journal: Applied Economics.

  • Barsbai et al. 2017. “The Effect of Labor Migration on the Diffusion of Democracy: Evidence from a Former Soviet Republic.” American Economic Journal: Applied Economics.

  • Howell. 2017. "Impacts of Migration and Remittances on Ethnic Income Inequality in Rural China." World Development.


12
10 4/21/2020 Urban Slums Group presentation & Lecture

  • Marx, Stoker, and Suri. 2013. “The Economics of Slums in the Developing World.” Journal of Economic Perspectives.

  • Brueckner and Lall. 2015. “Cities in Developing Countries: Fueled by Rural-Urban Migration, Lacking in Tenure Security, and Short of Affordable Housing.” Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics.

  • Castells-Quintana. 2017. "Malthus living in a slum: Urban concentration, infrastructure and economic growth." Journal of Urban Economics.


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11 4/28/2020 Literature review presentations & critique Individual presentation TBD 12
12 5/5/2020 Literature review presentations & critique Individual presentation TBD 12
13 5/12/2020 Referee report due; exam questions & review     12
14 5/19/2020 Final exam Individual exam   15
15 5/26/2020 Guest lecture Lecture   12
16 6/2/2020 Final presentations & critique Individual presentation   12
17 6/9/2020 Final presentations & critique Individual presentation   12

Teaching Methods
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Requirement/Grading

  • Homework and Participation (15%)

  • Group Presentations (20%)

  • Literature Review Presentation and Critique (20%)

  • Exam (15%)

  • Final Paper (30%)


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