IMPORTANT: no class today Dec 18

Dear all,

last-minute news: prof. Verwimp will not be able to teach today, December 18, so there will be no class.

Slides will be posted later this week.

the ECODEV team

Update: summary for next week

Dear all,

an update as of the readings you are supposed to summarize:

for next week [deadline: Sunday, November, 25], you should submit a summary of

Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson, Simon Johnson (2001), The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation, American Economic Review, 91, pp. 1369-1401; December.

Happy reading!

Deadline for week 10 summary

Dear all,

As you might know Tuesday is holiday and there is no class of Topics in Development Economics scheduled. As a consequence, the deadline for next week paper has been moved to next Sunday, November, 25.

The TOPDEVEC Team

Summaries (not) delivered

Dear all,

here (UPDATED 14/11!) you can find a list of summaries already delivered: it seems there are some of them missing. If you find mistakes or something not correct, please email Andrea Colombo with a proof of your submission (i.e., forward the original email with the summary you sent to either Prof. Verwimp or Prof. Estache).

For organizative reasons, we set up a deadline for delivering summaries. Your works must be received on the Sunday evening preceeding the week you have been assigned to. For example, summaries for next week (W8) must be received within Sunday evening (November, 4th).

The TopDevEco Team

Lectures flow

Dear all,

As the Banerjee lecture replaced the regular Development Econ class yesterday, the lecture on ‘ Households ‘ will take place at the end
of the course (Dec 18) or on another date, to be defined.

Next week we will continue the program with the class on child undernutrition and its long-term consequences.

 

Errata corrige: reading for Lecture 5

Dear all,

there is a mistake in the reading list: the reading you are supposed to summarize for Lecture 5 is not the 300-pages book which is noted on the RL; instead it is the following 30-pages paper:

I Singh, L Squire, J Strauss – The World Bank Economic Review, 1986 – World Bank: A Survey of Agricultural Household Models: Recent Findings and Policy Implications World Bank Econ Rev (1986) 1(1): 149-179

You can find a link to it in the Readings page.

 

 

 

Summary deadline

Dear all,

A lot of students who have a surname starting with M-Z have not turned in the summary relative to week #3 on Tuesday Oct 2. Probably this was unclear, so you will not be penalized for it… but please send in your summary by Oct 9 the latest. (Exceptional longer deadline for this time).

Students with surname starting with A-L should turn in week #4 reading summary before 9/10/2012.

Students with surname starting with M-Z should, then, turn in week #5 summary before 16/10/2012 and so on.

From next week onwards, please stick to the reading calendar!!

A special lecture: Banerjee at ULB

Dear all,

on October 16, at 14.30, Prof. Abhijit Banerjee from MIT will be giving a talk at ULB.

The Topics in Development Economics lecture will therefore “move”, for this time, to the Salle Dupréel to profit of this contribution. The talk will then be considered exam material.

Don’t forget that registration is mandatory to attend this event: you must register on the IEE website, where you will also find info on the precise location of the event.

Papers and summaries: updated requirements and reading list

Dear all,

to clarify on requirements in terms of summaries:

• The readings marked with a * are those for which all students are required to submit a summary .
• For PhD students, you also need to read and summarize articles marked ++.
• Note that there are some required readings for which you don’t need to submit a summary.

Here is the updated reading list, with the * and ++ in the right place. On the same page you will find the guidelines your should follow when writing summaries.

Remember the first deadline is before Lecture 3 for all students. After that, the odd/even week deadlines will apply according to the initial of your surname. Please not that deadlines for summaries are mandatory and if you turn them in late they will not count towards your final grade.

Looking forward to reading your summaries!

Papers: guidelines

You will be asked to summarize several papers for the course. Summaries should be 2-3 pages long (longer for doctoral students) and be sufficiently self-contained so a reader who has not read the original paper can understand what the paper does, how it does it, what results it gets and what conclusions it reaches.

More specifically, your summary must cover at least the points listed in these reading and summary guidelines.

Recall the first summary is due before the 3rd lecture. Each week, you will be asked to e-mail your summary to the professor who’s in charge of that week’s lecture.

A reading list with a few updates for doctoral students readings will be uploaded later today!