Week |
|
Topic |
Format |
Readings |
Learning hours (including class time) |
1 |
|
Introduction, Principles of Economics |
Lecture |
Class notes |
9 |
2 |
|
Regression, Evaluation & Stata |
Lecture |
Class notes |
12 |
3 |
|
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 |
|
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 |
|
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 |
|
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 |
|
Individual research topic discussion |
|
|
12 |
8 |
|
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 |
|
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 |
|
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.
|
12 |
11 |
|
Literature review presentations & critique |
Individual presentation |
TBD |
12 |
12 |
|
Literature review presentations & critique |
Individual presentation |
TBD |
12 |
13 |
|
Referee report due; exam questions & review |
|
|
12 |
14 |
|
Final exam |
Individual exam |
|
15 |
15 |
|
Guest lecture |
Lecture |
|
12 |
16 |
|
Final presentations & critique |
Individual presentation |
|
12 |
17 |
|
Final presentations & critique |
Individual presentation |
|
12 |