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- Wooldridge, Jeffrey M. (2009), Introductory Econometrics: A Modern Approach 4 th Edition, South- Western ed.

A good background reading for the lectures on labor markets, entrepreneurship and education is:- Boserup, Esther (2007), Womans Role in Economic Development, Earthscan ed.

Another interesting background reference is:- Folbre, Nancy (1986), Cleaning House: New Perspectives on Households and EconomicDevelopment, Journal of Development Economics 22: 5-40.

Grading

The grading will be based on (a) class participation (10%) (b) a student presentation (25%, by group of 2students) (c) a term paper (65%, individual).

- Presentation: youll have to choose a recent paper from the reading list among those marked with a(P). Presentations will be at the end of each lecture, will last around 15 minutes and will befollowed by a general discussion. Papers from outside the reading list can be presented upon myapproval.

- Paper: 10-12 pages max. The paper should contain a clear research question, hypothesis, referencesand a conclusion. The methodology is open, i.e. it can be a quantitative or qualitative work. Moreguidelines can be found on the website.

The reading list below may be updated: see website for the more recent version

Abbreviations (name of journals)

AER: American Economic Review; EER: European Economic Review; EMA: Econometrica; JIE: Journalof International Economics; JPE: Journal of Political Economy; JDE: Journal of DevelopmentEconomics. JEL: Journal of Economic Literature; NBER: National Bureau of Economic Research(nber.org); QJE: Quarterly Journal of Economics, RESTAT: Review of Economics and Statistics; RES:Review of Economic Studies

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LECTURE 1. INTRODUCTION : ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVES ON GENDER AND DEVELOPMENT(September 23)

Required Readings:

Duflo, Esther (2012), Womens Empowerment and Economic Development, Womens

Empowerment and Economic Development, Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. 50, No. 4: 1051-79,CEPR Discussion Paper No. 8734.


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Sen, Amartya (1990), More than 100 Million Women are Missing, New York Review of Books, Dec 23.

Other Readings:

Bandiera, Oriana, and Ashwini Natraj (2013), Does Gender Inequality Hinder Development andEconomic Growth? Evidence and Policy Implications, World Bank Research Observer, 28: 2-21.

LECTURE 2. GENDER G APS ( September 30 )

What are gender gaps? What are the mechanisms through which gender gaps emerge? Why are gendergaps more pronounced in low income countries?

Required Readings:

Closing the Gap: Special Report on Women and Work, the Economist, November 2011.

Hausmann, Ricardo, Ina Ganguli and Martina Viarengo (2009), The Dynamics of the Gender Gap: Howdo Countries Rank in terms of Making Marriage and Motherhood Compatible with Work?, Published inthe Global Gender Gap Report 2009, Geneva: World Economic Forum Publication.

Other Readings:

2012 World Development Report on Gender Equality and Development, Washington DC: World BankPublication.

Goldin, Claudia (1990), Understanding the Gender Gap, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Goldin, Claudia (2006), The Quiet Revolution That Transformed Women's Employment, Education, andFamily American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings 96: 1-21.

Bertrand, Marianne, Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz (2010), Dynamics of the Gender Gap for Young Professionals in the Financial and Corporate Sectors, American Economic Journal: AppliedEconomics 2(3): 228-55.

Blau, Francine and Lawrence Kahn (2003), Understanding International Differences in the Gender PayGap, Journal of Labor Economics 21(1): 106-44.

The Global Gender Gap Report 2012, World Economic Forum:http://www.weforum.org/reports/global-gender-gap-report-2012

Gender and Development, World Bank: http://go.worldbank.org/6MGA8V2TN0

GenderStats, World Bank: http://go.worldbank.org/YMPEGXASH0


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LECTURE 3. E VALUATION OF INTERVENTIONS AND POLICY IMPACT ( October 7 )

What is program evaluation? What are the techniques used to estimate the causal effect of policyinterventions?

Required Readings:

Ashraf, Nava, Erica Field and Jean Lee (2010), Household Bargaining and Excess Fertility: AnExperimental Study in Zambia Mimeo, Harvard Business School.

Field E. (2005), Fertility Responses to Land Titling: The Role of Ownership Security and the Distributionof Household Assets Mimeo, Harvard University.

Other Readings:

Imbens, Guido W., and Jeffrey M. Wooldridge (2009), Recent Developments in the Econometrics ofProgram Evaluation, Journal of Economic Literature 47(1): 5-86.

Carrell, Scott E., Marianne E. Page, and James E. West (2010), Sex and Science: How Professor GenderPerpetuates the Gender Gap, Quarterly Journal of Economics 125(3): 1101-44.

Goldin, Claudia and Cecilia Rouse (2000), Orchestrating Impartiality: The Impact of Blind Auditions onFemale Musicians, American Economic Review 90(4): 715-41.

LECTURE 4. HOUSEHOLD FORMATION AND M ARRIAGE M ARKETS ( October 14 )

What are the factors that affect household formation? What is the process by which households areformed? What is the role of transfers such as bride-prices and dowries?

Required Readings:

Fafchamps, Marcel and Agnes R. Quisumbing (2008), Household Formation and Marriage Markets inRural Areas published in: T. Paul Schultz and John A. Strauss (eds.) Handbook of Development

Economics, Elsevier, Edition 1, 4(5): 3188-247.

Becker, Gary S. (1981), A Treatise on the Family, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, Chapters2-3.

Other Readings:

Quisumbing, Agnes R. (2003), Household Decisions, Gender, and Development: A Synthesis of RecentResearch, International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, DC.

Boulier, Brian L. and Mark R. Rosenzweig (1984), Schooling, Search, and Spouse Selection: Testing

Economic Theories of Marriage and Household Behavior, Journal of Political Economy 92(4): 71232.


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Jacoby, Hanan G. (1995), The Economics of Polygyny in Sub-Saharan Africa: Female Productivity andthe Demand for Wives in Cote dIvoire, Journal of Political Economy 103(5): 93871.

Botticini, Maristella and Aloysius Siow (2003). Why Dowries? American Economic Review 93(4): 1385 98.

Isen, Adam and Betsey Stevenson (2010), Womens Education and Family Behavior: Trends in Marriage,Divorce and Fertility NBER Chapters, in: Demography and the Economy, pages 107-140. Cambridge,MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.

-(P) Fafchamps, Marcel, Agnes R. Quisumbing (2005), Marriage, Bequest, and Assortative Matching inRural Ethiopia, Economic Development and Cultural Change 53(2): 34780.

LECTURE 5. INTRA-HOUSEHOLD ALLOCATION OF R ESOURCES ( October 21 )How are resources allocated within the household? Is the evidence consistent with a Pareto efficientallocation? Does the identity of the income earner have an effect on the use of resources?

Required Readings:

Bohnet, Iris and Fiona Greig (2009), Exploring Gendered Behavior in the Field with Experiments: WhyPublic goods are Provided by Women in a Nairobi Slum, Journal of Economic Behavior andOrganization 70(1): 1-9.

Udry, Christopher (1996), Gender, Agricultural Production, and the Theory of the Household, Journalof Political Economy 104(5): 1010-45.

Other Readings:

Duflo, Esther (2003), Grandmothers and Granddaughters: Old Age Pension and Intra-Household Allocation in South Africa, World Bank Economic Review 17(1): 1-25.

Duflo, Esther, and Christopher Udry (2004), Intra-Household Resource Allocation in Cote dIvoire:Social Norms, Separate Accounts, and Consumption Choices NBER Working Paper No. 10498.Strauss, John A., and Duncan Thomas (1995), Human Resources: Empirical Modeling of Household andFamily Decisions, in Thirukodikaval Nilakanta Srinivasan and Jere Behrman (eds.) Handbook ofDevelopment Economics, Amsterdam: North Holland, 3A: 1885-2023.

Lundberg, Shelly and Robert A. Pollak (1996), Bargaining and Distribution in Marriage Journal ofEconomic Perspectives 10(4):139-58.

-(P) Anderson, Siwan and Jean-Marie Baland. (2002), The Economics of Roscas and Intra-HouseholdResource Allocation, Quarterly Journal of Economics 117(3): 963-95.

-(P) Ashraf, Nava (2009), Spousal Control and Intra-Household Decision Making: An ExperimentalStudy in the Philippines, American Economic Review 99(4): 1245-77.


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-(P) Alesina, Alberto, Paola Giuliano, and Nathan Nunn. (2013) On the Origin of Gender Roles: Womenand the Plough, Quarterly Journal of Economics 128, no. 2: 469-530.

LECTURE 6. THE R OLE AND GLOBAL PLAN OF ACTION OF INTERNATIONALORGANIZATIONS ( October 28 )

Guest Speaker: Nicolette Moodie, Human Rights and Gender Liaison Officer of the Gender and RightsUnit, Programme Division at the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)

LECTURE 7. EDUCATION ( November 4 ) What are the private returns and social externalities associated with womens education? What are theconsequences of parents investment decisions on womens life chances? What is the impact ofinterventions?

Required Readings:

Hanushek, Eric (2008), Schooling, Gender Equity, and Economic Outcomes, Chapter 2 in Tembon,Mercy and Lucia Fort (eds.), Girls Education in the 21st Century: Gender Equality, Empowerment andEconomic Growth, Washington DC: World Bank Publication.

Duncan, Thomas (1994), Like Father, Like Son, or, Like Mother, Like Daughter: Parental Education andChild Health, Journal of Human Resources 29(4): 950-88.

Schultz, Paul T. (2004), School Subsidies for the Poor: Evaluating the Mexican Progresa PovertyProgram, Journal of Development Economics 74:199-250.

Other Readings:

Tembon, Mercy and Lucia Fort (eds.) (2008), Girls Education in the 21 st Century: Gender Equality,Empowerment and Economic Growth, Washington DC: World Bank Publication.

Kremer, Michael, Edward Miguel and Rebecca Thornton (2009), Incentives to Learn, Review ofEconomics and Statistics 91(3): 437-56.

Banerjee, Abhijit V., Shawn Cole, Esther Duflo and Leigh Linden (2007), Remedying Education:Evidence from Two Randomized Experiments in India, Quarterly Journal of Economics 122(3): 1235-64.

Jayachandran, Seema and Adriana Lleras-Muney (2009), Life Expectancy and Human CapitalInvestments: Evidence from Maternal Mortality Declines, Quarterly Journal of Economics 124(1): 399-422.

-(P) Jensen, Robert and Emily Oster (2009), The Power of TV: Cable Television and Womens Status inIndia, Quarterly Journal of Economics 124(3): 105794.


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LECTURE 8. HEALTH ( November 11 )

Have the Millennium Development Goals that call for specific health improvements (i.e., reducing childdeaths, reducing maternal mortality, slowing the spread of HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis) by 2015been met? What is the evidence on private health behavior and supply of health care in developingcountries? What is the effect of policy interventions to improve womens health?

During the lecture we will also have a guest speaker who is going to share with us the field experience ofher team in designing and implementing health policies and interventions in developing countries and incomplex humanitarian emergencies:

Guest Speaker : Luisa Cremonese, Senior Coordinator for Community Development of the Gender Equalityand Children Section at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

Required Readings:

Qian, Nancy (2008), Missing Women and the Price of Tea in China, Quarterly Journal of Economics123(3): 1251-85.

Gertler, Paul (2004), Do Conditional Cash Transfers Improve Child Health? Evidence fromPROGRESAs Controlled Randomized Experiment, American Economic Review 94(2): 33641.

Other Readings:

Arnold, Fred, Sunita Kishor and T.K. Roy (2002), Sex-Selective Abortions in India, Population andDevelopment Review 28(4): 759-85.

Dupas, Pascaline (2011), Health Behavior in Developing Countries, Annual Review of Economics 3:425-49.

Canning, David (2006), The Economics of HIV/AIDS in Low-Income Countries: The Case forPrevention, Journal of Economic Perspectives 20(3): 12142.

Banerjee, Abhijit, Angus Deaton and Esther Duflo (2004), Wealth, Health, and Health Services in RuralRajasthan, American Economic Review 94(2): 326330.

-(P) Jensen, Robert (2010), Economic Opportunities and Gender Differences in Human Capital:Experimental Evidence for India NBER Working Paper No. 16021.

Oster, Emily (2005), Hepatitis B and the Case of the Missing Women, Journal of Political Economy113(6): 1163-216.

Jayachandran, Seema and Iliana Kuziemko (2011), Why do Mothers Breastfeed Girls Less than Boys?Evidence and Implications for Child Health in India, Quarterly Journal of Economics 126(3): 1485-538.

Edlund, Lena and Chulhee Lee (2009), Son Preference, Sex Selection and Economic Development:

Theory and Evidence from South Korea, Columbia University Discussion Papers No. 0910-04.


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LECTURE 9. TERM P APER

Individual meetings with students are going to be scheduled, abstract and outline should be presented

LECTURE 10. L ABOR M ARKETS AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP ( November 25 )

What are the challenges facing women in developing countries? What constrains the entrepreneurialchoices of poor women? What are the financial services available to low-income households? What is theevidence on microfinance programs as a tool to promote womens business activity and reduce poverty?

Required Readings:

Field, Erica, Seema Jayachandran and Rohini Pande. (2010), Do Traditional Institutions ConstrainFemale Entrepreneurship? A Field Experiment on Business Training in India, American EconomicReview: Papers and Proceedings 125-9.

Morduch, Jonathan (1999), The Microfinance Promise, Journal of Economic Literature 37(4): 1569-614.

Other Readings:

-(P) de Mel, Suresh, David McKenzie and Chris Woodruff (2009), Are Women More Credit Constrained?Experimental Evidence on Gender and Microenterprise Returns, American Economic Journal-AppliedEconomics 1(3):1-32.

Blau, Francine, Marianne Ferber and Anne Winkler (2010), The Economics of Women, Men, and Work,6th edition Prentice-Hall, Chapter 12.

Other Readings:

Fernandez, Raquel, Alessandra Fogli and Claudia Olivetti (2004), Mothers and Sons: PreferenceFormation and Female Labor Force Dynamics, Quarterly Journal of Economics 119(4): 1217-48.

Feigenberg, Benjamin, Erica Field and Rohini Pande (2010), Building Social Capital ThroughMicrofinance, NBER Working Paper No. 16018.

Field, Erica, Rohini Pande, John Papp and Natalia Rigol (2011), Debt Structure, Entrepreneurship, andRisk: Evidence from Microfinance Mimeo, Harvard University.

Dupas, Pascaline and Jonathan Robinson (2013), Savings Constraints and Microenterprise Development:Evidence from a Field Experiment in Kenya, AEJ: Applied Economics 5(1): 163-92, NBER WorkingPaper No. 14693.

Croppenstedt, Andre Markus, Goldstein and Nina Rosas (2013) Gender and Agriculture: Inefficiencies,Segregation, and Low Productivity Traps, World Bank Research Observer 28: 79-109.


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International Labour Organization (ILO) (2012), Global Employment Trends for Women , Geneva: ILOPublications.

LECTURE 11. POLITICAL P ARTICIPATION ( December 2 )

How does the access to political participation vary across countries? What reforms to electoral systemsmay be designed to progress towards equal gender representation?

Required Readings:

Beaman, Lori, Esther Duflo, Rohini Pande and Petia Topalova (2010), Political Reservation and

Substantive Representation Mimeo, Harvard Kennedy School.

Alesina, Alberto and Paula Giuliano (2011), Family Ties and Political Participation, Journal of theEuropean Economic Association 9(5): 817-39.

Other Readings:

-(P) Edlund, Lenaand and Rohini Pande (2002), Why Have Women Become Left Wing? The PoliticalGender Gap and the Decline in Marriage, Quarterly Journal of Economics 117(3): 917-961.

Anzia, Sarah F. and Christopher Berry (2011), The Jackie (and Jill) Robinson Effect: Why DoCongresswomen Outperform Congressmen?, American Journal of Political Science 55(3): 478-93.

Krook, Moona Lena (2007), Candidate Gender Quotas: A Framework for Analysis, European Journalof Political Research 46: 36794.

Krook, Mona Lena (2009), Quotas for Women in Politics: Gender and Candidate Selection Reform Worldwide, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

LECTURE 12. LEADERSHIP ( December 9 )

Why are women still underrepresented in leadership positions in politics and business across the world? What are the barriers to female leadership? How should public policy respond?

Required Readings:

Beaman, Lori, Raghabendra Chattopadhyay, Esther Duflo, Rohini Pande and Petia Topalova (2009),Powerful Women: Does Exposure Reduce Bias?, Quarterly Journal of Economics 124(4): 1449-96.

Matsa, David A. and Amalia R. Miller (2011), Chipping Away at the Glass Ceiling: Gender Spillovers inCorporate Leadership, American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings 101(3): 635-39.


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Other Readings:

Bertrand, Marianne, Dolly Chugh and Sendhil Mullainathan (2005), Implicit Discrimination, AmericanEconomic Review 95(2): 94-8.

Ban, Radu and Vijayendra Rao (2008), Tokenism or Agency? The Impact of Womens Reservations on Village Democracies in South India, Economic Development and Cultural Change 56: 501-30.

Ahern, Kenneth and Amy K. Dittmar (2010), The Changing of the Boards: The Value Effect of aMassive Exogenous Shock Mimeo, University of Michigan.

Eagly Alice H., and Linda L. Carli (2007), Through the Labyrinth: The Truth about How WomenBecome Leaders, Cambridge, MA: Harvard Business School Press.

-(P) Clots-Figueras, Irma (2012), Are Female Leaders Good for Education? Evidence from India,

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 4(1): 212-44.

LECTURE 13. MIGRATION ( December 16 )

What are the determinants of female migration? What is the international evidence on the brain drain vs.brain gain? Are there gender differences in migrants remitting behavior?

Required Readings:

Docquier, Frdric, B. Linsday Lowell and Abdeslam Marfouk (2009), A Gendered Assessment of HighlySkilled Emigration, Population and Development Review 35(2): 297321.

Lauby, Jennifer, and Oded Stark (1988), Individual Migration as a Family Strategy: Young Women in thePhilippines, Population Studies 42(3): 47386.

Other Readings:

-(P) de la Brire, Bndicte, Alain de Janvry, Sylvie Lambert and Elisabeth Sadoulet (2002), The Roles ofDestination, Gender, and Household Composition in Explaining Remittances: An Analysis for theDominican Sierra, Journal of Development Economics 68(2): 30928.

Rosenzweig, Mark R. and Oded Stark (1989), Consumption Smoothing, Migration, and Marriage:Evidence from Rural India, Journal of Political Economy 97(4): 90526.

Koettl Johannes (2009), Human Trafficking, Modern Day Slavery, and Economic Exploitation, SocialProtection and Labor Discussion Papers Series, Washington DC: World Bank Publication.

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