Plan for Second Half of Fall 2011

• Farm-Household Models
  
  • Lecture 1: Farm-Household Models SCHEDULED: 2011-10-13 Thu
    
    • Admin
      
      • Distribute Syllabus
      • Distribute Assignment 2a. Idea: Have groups of students get different LSMS surveys, and use this in connection with lectures.
      • Distribute Notes on the Farm-Household Model
    • Key Readings
      
      • Bardhan-Udry (1999) Ch. 2 (Household Economics)
      • Deaton-Muellbauer (1980)
    • Idea: Outline basic model, a la Singh et al via Bardhan & Udry.
      Show that separation is implied by basic model. Discuss how to estimate demand system, labor supply, all in an environment with no risk.
  • Lecture 2: Farm-Household Models SCHEDULED: 2011-10-18 Tue
    
    • Key readings
      
      • Benjamin (1992)
    • Other readings
      
      • Deaton (2008)
    • Idea: Estimating farm-level demand and supply; testing separation
      
  • Lecture 3: Testing Farm-Household Models SCHEDULED: 2011-10-20 Thu
    
    • Admin
      
    • Key Readings
      
      • Benjamin (1992)
      • Le (2010)
    • Idea: What can go wrong? If there's risk, separation fails. Ways
      to test separation. Discuss concrete methods for testing for separation using a LSMS dataset.

• Risk-sharing
  
  • Lecture 4: Risk-sharing SCHEDULED: 2011-10-25 Tue
    
    • Key Readings
      
      • Draft of Ligon (2008)
      • Bardhan-Udry (1999) Ch. 8
      • Fafchamps (1992)
      • Townsend (1994)
    • Idea: What are the effects of risk, and how can we measure it?
      Models of full risk-sharing; interpretation of multipliers; relationship to interest rates.
  • Lecture 5: Risk-sharing SCHEDULED: 2011-10-27 Thu
    
    • Key Readings
      
      • Angelucci-deGiorgi (2009)
      • Townsend (1995)
      • Kurosaki (1999)
    • Idea: How can we test for full risk sharing?
      
  • Lecture 6: SCHEDULED: 2011-11-01 Tue
    
    • Key Readings
      
      • Mazzocco-Saini (2011)

• Intra-household allocation
  
  • Lecture 7 SCHEDULED: 2011-11-03 Thu
    
    • Key Readings
      
      • Browning, Bourguignon, Chiappori (2009)
      • Bobonis (2009)
    • Idea: Introduce basic static model of intra-household problem
      with no uncertainty.
      • Altruism (Becker)
      • Nash-bargaining (McElroy-Horning)
      • Collective Model (Chiappori)
  • Lecture 8: Intra-household allocation SCHEDULED: 2011-11-08 Tue
    
    • Admin
      
    • Idea: Cover intra-household problem with time and uncertainty.
      
    • Key Readings
      
      • Attanasio-Lechene (2002)
  • Lecture 9: Intrahousehold allocation
    SCHEDULED: 2011-11-10 Thu
    
    • Key Readings
      
      • Lundberg-Pollak (1996)
      • Duflo-Udry (2004)
      • Mazzocco (2007)

• Dynamics of Consumption, Savings, and Inequality
  
  • Lecture 10
    
    • Key Readings
      
      • Attanasio-Weber (2010)
  • Lecture 11
    
    • Key Readings
      
      • Deaton-Paxson (1994)
      • Lucas (1992)

• Final Exam: SCHEDULED: 2011-12-01 Thu
  

Date: 2010-08-26 Thu

Author: Ethan Ligon

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