Wednesday, Labor and migration Debraj Ray textbook, chapters 10 and 13 April 13 Gibson, John, and David McKenzie. "Eight questions about brain drain." The Journal of Economic Perspectives (2011): 107-128. ** Raviv, Shaun. “Why ‘Brain Drian’ can actually help African Countries.” The Atlantic, February 2014. ** Bryan, Gharad, Shyamal Chowdhury, and Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak. "Underinvestment in a Profitable Technology: The Case of Seasonal Migration in Bangladesh." Econometrica 82.5 (2014): 1671-1748. Monday, Labor case study: “Worker Safety in Bangladesh and Beyond.” New York April 18 sweatshops in Times Editorial. May 4, 2013. Bangladesh Kristof, Nicholas “Where Sweatshops are a Dream.” New York Times, January 14, 2009. Aaron Bernstein A World of Sweatshops. Business Week. NOVEMBER 6, 2000 Wednesday, Agriculture: land Debraj Ray textbook, chapters 6, 11, and 12 April 20 markets and property rights Monday, Agriculture: risk and Debraj Ray textbook, chapter 15 (sections 15.2 – 15.4 are April 25 technology adoption difficult. See if you can get the overall idea of what Ray (and a brief midterm is talking about, and we’ll work through some of the review) hard parts together in class) Wednesday, MIDTERM 1 April 27 Monday, Credit, insurance, and Debraj Ray textbook, chapter 14 May 2 microfinance Banerjee, Abhijit, Dean Karlan, and Jonathan Zinman. "Six randomized evaluations of microcredit: introduction and further steps." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 7.1 (2015): 1-21. Wednesday, (More on) May 4 intrahousehold Eric V. Edmonds and Nina Pavcnik “Child Labor in the economics and child Global Economy” The Journal of Economic Perspectives labor Vol. 19, No. 1 (Winter, 2005), pp. 199-220
Wednesday, April 13 Labor and migration Debraj Ray textbook, chapters 10 and 13 Gibson, John, and David McKenzie. "Eight questions about brain drain." The Journal of Economic Perspectives (2011): 107-128. ** Raviv, Shaun. “Why ‘Brain Drian’ can actually help African Countries.” The Atlantic, February 2014. ** Bryan, Gharad, Shyamal Chowdhury, and Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak. "Underinvestment in a Profitable Technology: The Case of Seasonal Migration in Bangladesh." Econometrica 82.5 (2014): 1671-1748. Monday, April 18 Labor case study: sweatshops in Bangladesh “Worker Safety in Bangladesh and Beyond.” New York Times Editorial. May 4, 2013. Kristof, Nicholas “Where Sweatshops are a Dream.” New York Times, January 14, 2009. Aaron Bernstein A World of Sweatshops. Business Week. NOVEMBER 6, 2000 Wednesday, April 20 Agriculture: land markets and property rights Debraj Ray textbook, chapters 6, 11, and 12 Monday, April 25 Agriculture: risk and technology adoption (and a brief midterm review) Debraj Ray textbook, chapter 15 (sections 15.2 – 15.4 are difficult. See if you can get the overall idea of what Ray is talking about, and we’ll work through some of the hard parts together in class) Wednesday, April 27 MIDTERM 1 Monday, May 2 Credit, insurance, and microfinance Debraj Ray textbook, chapter 14 Banerjee, Abhijit, Dean Karlan, and Jonathan Zinman. "Six randomized evaluations of microcredit: introduction and further steps." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 7.1 (2015): 1-21. Wednesday, May 4 (More on) intrahousehold economics and child labor Eric V. Edmonds and Nina Pavcnik “Child Labor in the Global Economy” The Journal of Economic Perspectives Vol. 19, No. 1 (Winter, 2005), pp. 199-220
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