ARE 251 - ECON 270A - Microeconomics of Development
Tuesday-Thursday 3.30-5pm
Place: 2032 Valley LSB
				Research	Problems				Reading
Week	Month	Day	Date	ideas	solving	Assignments	Classes	Instructor	assignments
1	August	Tuesday	26				Household models	Betty	Eswaran and Kotwal
		Thursday	28				Household models	Betty	Bowlus & Sicular
2	Sept.	Tuesday	2	#1			Household models	Betty	Key et al.
		Thursday	4				Household models	Betty
3		Tuesday	9				History of thought in development	Alain	Lindauer and Pritchett
		Thursday	11			#1 Referee report	History of thought in development	Alain	Acemoglu, Johnson and Robinson, QJE
4		Tuesday	16				Risk	Betty	Deaton, chapt 6;Dercon
		Thursday	18		#1		Risk	Betty	Jalan and Ravallion
5		Tuesday	23				Risk	Betty	Kochar; Finkelshtain & Chalfant
		Thursday	25	#2			Governance: CPR	Alain	Baland and Platteau
6		Tuesday	30				Governance: CPR	Alain	McCarthy, Sadoulet and de Janvry
	Oct.	Thursday	2				Micro-finance Institutions	Betty	Ghatak sections 1-3, EJ 2000
7		Tuesday	7				Micro-finance Institutions	Betty	(Pitt and Khandker); McIntosh et al.
		WEDNESDAY 5-8pm	8			#2 Current Policy Issue	Students' presentations	Alain & Betty
8		Tuesday	14				Midterm
		Thursday	16					Jenny
9		Tuesday	21					Jenny
		Thursday	23					Jenny
10		Tuesday	28					Jenny
		Thursday	30		#2			Jenny
11	Nov.	Tuesday	4					Jenny
		Thursday	6			#3 Empirical assignment		Jenny
12		Tuesday	11					Jenny
		Thursday	13					Jenny
13		Tuesday	18					Jenny
		Thursday	20		#3			Jenny
14		Tuesday	25					Jenny
		Thursday	27				Thanksgiving
15	Dec.	Tuesday	2			#4 Research proposal		Jenny
		Thursday	4					Jenny
Examination		To be set during the week of December 8-12
Revised: September 20, 2003