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Master of Development Practice Course: Economic Development and Policy
Syllabus
Course that can be jointly listed with PP C253/ARE C253 3 units (2 hrs + TA)
1. Course objectives This is a Master’s level course in international economic development policy and practice. It has the following objectives: • Help students learn apply the tools of economic analysis to problems of growth,
poverty, and environmental sustainability in developing countries. • Help students understand: (1) why some poor countries have been successful in
catching up with the industrialized countries in per capita income, while others are increasingly lagging behind, (2) why half of humanity remains poor, and (3) why environmental degradation and resource exhaustion are commonly associated with income growth, and what are the implications of degradation and exhaustion on growth and poverty.
• Help students understand what can be done to promote development through policies and investment projects, and learn to analyze the economic, social, and environmental impacts of specific initiatives.
• Teach students to use data to conduct development analyses such as growth diagnostics, poverty assessments, impact analysis of development projects, and environmental impact assessments. Learn to prepare the corresponding reports for international development agencies and policy makers.
2. Course requirements Pre-requisites: Microeconomics and econometrics at the undergraduate upper-division or Master’s
level. Knowledge of Stata or an equivalent statistical package. Requirements to pass the class Two extensive quantitative case studies: to be developed by teams of two Three policy briefs prepared individually Final examination: closed books Contributions to the course grade 1. Two quantitative case studies: 2x20 = 40% of grade 2. Three policy notes: 3x5 = 15% of grade 3. Final examination: 45% of grade 3. Chronological schedule of topics Each topic will correspond to a week of the course
1. Policy issues in development 2. Poverty assessment: methods 3. Poverty assessment: policies and programs 4. Inequality and vulnerability assessment 5. Human development and social protection programs 6. Targeting of social programs 7. Microfinance institutions 8. Impact analysis of development projects: methods 9. Impact analysis of development projects: cases 10. Development strategies and macro-policies 11. Agriculture for development 12. Environment and development policy 13. Policy debate on foreign aid 14. Crises and policy responses 15. Review. The development profession 4. A list of required readings The textbook for the class is: Alain de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet. 2010. International Economic Development and Policy. Accessible to students with class password. Course materials are posted on the class homepage at: http://are.berkeley.edu/courses/ARE253/fall2009/index.html Readings: - Overview:
Word Bank-IMF, Global Monitoring Report 2009. Overview http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTDEC/EXTGLOBALMONITOR/EXTGLOMONREP2009/0,,contentMDK:22149019~pagePK:64168445~piPK:64168309~theSitePK:5924405,00.html See in particular progress on the MDG on that page Inspect the World Bank homepage for information www.worldbank.org
- Poverty Assessments Poverty and inequality course-WB http://econ.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTDEC/EXTRESEARCH/EXTPROGRAMS/EXTPOVRES/0,,contentMDK:21612674~pagePK:64168182~piPK:64168060~theSitePK:477894,00.html Look at the World Bank’s Guidance on Poverty Assessments, and in particular the Guidance Note on Poverty Assessment found at: http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/TOPICS/EXTPOVERTY/EXTPA/0,,contentMDK:20202212~isCURL:Y~menuPK:435735~pagePK:148956~piPK:216618~theSitePK:430367,00.html
- Poverty Ravallion, M., and S. Chen. 2007. "China's (uneven) progress against poverty." Journal of Development Economics 82(1): 1-42. link
- Inequality and Inequity World Bank, Growth and Inequality http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/TOPICS/EXTPOVERTY/EXTPGI/0,,contentMDK:20263391~menuPK:577810~pagePK:148956~piPK:216618~theSitePK:342771,00.html
- Social programs and the art of targeting David Coady, Margaret E. Grosh, John Hoddinott. 2004. Targeting of Transfers in Developing Countries. The World Bank. Read chapter 4 http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=l3ppSymUipQC&dq=targeting+transfers+developing+countries+coady&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=ils6E7d_9d&sig=wuRU0ov_z2xS3AZM36Q8atKyUlc&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result#PPA81,M1
- Cash transfer policies Ariel Fiszbein and Norbert Schady. 2009. Conditional Cash Transfers: Reducing present and future poverty. The World Bank Read: Overview, pp. 1-27 http://books.google.com/books?id=aunlBU_2FsYC&pg=PA103&lpg=PA103&dq=onditional+cash+transfer+overview+schady&source=bl&ots=_08Hq4HT3K&sig=fO_5Pw4w4uigscIReGaekfCZygI&hl=en&ei=NITFSo6zIovisQO02K2iBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3#v=onepage&q=&f=false
- Impact analysis of development projects. Ravallion, M. "The mystery of the vanishing benefits: An introduction to impact evaluation." World Bank Economic Review , Sep, 2001, V15(N1):115-140. http://wber.oxfordjournals.org/content/vol15/issue1/index.dtl Kim, J., H. Alderman, and P. Orazem. 1999." Can Private School Subsidies Increase Enrollment for the Poor? The Quetta Urban Fellowship Program. The World Bank Economic Review, Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 443-65 http://wber.oxfordjournals.org/content/vol13/issue3/index.dtl
- Development strategies and macro policies Chapter 12. International Finance and Development: Exchange Rates and Foreign Capital Flows Download The Economist, October 22, 2009. Special Report on China: Round and round it goes Download
- Microfinance institutions Beatriz Armendáriz de Aghion and Jonathan Morduch. 2004. “Microfinance: Where do we Stand?” Attached Look at the home pages of the following three internet microfinance lenders: http://www.kiva.org/ https://www.myc4.com http://www.prosper.com How do they each work? What are their relative advantages and inconvenient?
- Development and the Environment - A bad climate for development, The Economist, Sep 17th 2009, Attached - Last gasp for the forest, The Economist, Sep 24th 2009, Attached - The price of cleanliness, , The Economist, Oct 22nd 2009, Attached
- Common Property Resources and Cooperation
- Chapter 9: Common Property Resources and Cooperation, Attached - A rising tide, The Economist, Sep 18, 2008, Attached - Common Sense, The Economist, July 31, 2008, Attached
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Public Health 2_XX_ / DevP 2_XX__ Foundations of Public Health Spring 2011 Professor Arthur L. Reingold Professor Kirk R. Smith Weekly 2 hr. Seminar Day & Time TBD Location TBD Course Description
Good health at the individual and community level is essential to the development of countries and regions. Good health, which is not simply the absence of illness and injury, is the result of the complex interplay of many factors, including the legal, social, political, and physical environments, economic forces, food availability and nutrition, access to safe water and sanitation, cultural beliefs and human behaviors, religion, and the availability of affordable preventive measures such as vaccines and of curative services, among others. This course is open to graduate students at U.C. Berkeley enrolled in the new multidisciplinary Masters in Development Practice program and has no prerequisites. Students will be expected to read, understand, and use sometimes advanced materials from diverse disciplines. The class will meet once a week for lectures and case-based discussions.
Course Requirements
Class Attendance and Readings: Students are expected to attend classes regularly and to complete weekly reading assignments. The lectures will cover the readings but will also supplement them with additional material. Doing well on the paper assignments and take-home final examination will depend on diligently attending lectures and doing the weekly readings. The course readings will be available on the course website on Bspace. Research Paper: Each student is expected to write two short papers. The papers will require library research as well as the formulation of an analytical argument. Examination: There will be a take-home final examination. The examination will have essay-style questions, and will require not only knowledge of the course material but also the capacity to analyze various paradigms and perspectives. Grading Structure: Papers (8 – 10 page research paper each): 30% x 2 = 60% Final Exam: 30% Participation (attendance, weekly responses, participation): 10%
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Resources Course Instructors: Professors Reingold and Smith will be available by appointment. You can email them at [email protected] and [email protected].
Organization of Course and Topics
Week 1: “Who Dies of What and Why?” Speaker – Arthur Reingold, Professor of Epidemiology, UCB
Week 2: “Global Burden of Disease and its Major Causes” Speaker – Kirk Smith, Professor of Global Environmental Health, UCB
• Lopez AD, Mathers CD, Ezzati M, Jamison DT, Murray CJ. Global and regional burden of disease and risk factors, 2001: systematic analysis of population health data. Lancet. 2006 May 27;367(9524):1747-57.
• Smith KR and Ezzati M. How Environmental Health Risks Change with Development: The epidemiologic and environmental risk transition revisited. Annu. Rev. Environ. Resour. 2005; 30:291-333.
Week 3: “An International Perspective on Poverty, Inequality & Health: What Can Be Done About It?” Speaker – Arthur Reingold
• Commission on the Social Determinants of Health of the World Health Organization. Closing the gap in a generation: health equity through action on the social determinants of health : final report of the commission on social determinants of health. Geneva: WHO. 2009.
Week 4: “Improving the Lives of Slum Dwellers: Lessons from Nairobi.” Guest Speaker – Jason Corburn, Associate Professor of City & Regional Planning, UCB
• Mercado S, Havemann K, Sami M, Ueda H. Urban poverty: an urgent public health issue. J Urban Health. 2007 May;84(3 Suppl):i7-15.
• Unger A, Riley LW. Slum health: from understanding to action. PLoS Med. 2007 Oct;4(10):1561-6. Review.
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Week 5: “Malnutrition, Health and Development: Causes & Interventions” Guest speaker: Lia Fernald, Associate Professor, Public Health Nutrition, Community Health & Human
Development, UCB
• Fernald LC, Gertler PJ, Neufeld LM. 10-year effect of Oportunidades, Mexico's conditional cash transfer programme, on child growth, cognition, language, and behaviour: a longitudinal follow-up study. Lancet. 2009 Dec 12;374(9706):1997-2005.
• Grantham-McGregor S, Cheung YB, Cueto S, Glewwe P, Richter L, Strupp B; International Child Development Steering Group. Developmental potential in the first 5 years for children in developing countries. Lancet. 2007 Jan 6;369(9555):60-70.
• Walker SP, Wachs TD, Gardner JM, Lozoff B, Wasserman GA, Pollitt E, Carter JA; International Child Development Steering Group. Child development: risk factors for adverse outcomes in developing countries. Lancet. 2007 Jan13;369(9556):145-57. Review.
• Engle PL, Black MM, Behrman JR, Cabral de Mello M, Gertler PJ, Kapiriri L, Martorell R, Young ME; International Child Development Steering Group. Strategies to avoid the loss of developmental potential in more than 200 million children in the developing world. Lancet. 2007 Jan 20;369(9557):229-42. Review.
• Black RE, Allen LH, Bhutta ZA, Caulfield LE, de Onis M, Ezzati M, Mathers C, Rivera J; Maternal and Child Undernutrition Study Group. Maternal and child undernutrition: global and regional exposures and health consequences. Lancet. 2008 Jan 19;371(9608):243-60. Review. PubMed PMID: 18207566.
• Victora CG, Adair L, Fall C, Hallal PC, Martorell R, Richter L, Sachdev HS; Maternal and Child Undernutrition Study Group. Maternal and child undernutrition: consequences for adult health and human capital. Lancet. 2008 Jan 26;371(9609):340-57. Review. Erratum in: Lancet. 2008 Jan 26;371(9609):302. PubMed PMID: 18206223; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2258311.
• Bhutta ZA, Ahmed T, Black RE, Cousens S, Dewey K, Giugliani E, Haider BA, Kirkwood B, Morris SS, Sachdev HP, Shekar M; Maternal and Child Undernutrition Study Group. What works? Interventions for maternal and child undernutrition and survival. Lancet. 2008 Feb 2;371(9610):417-40. Review. PubMed PMID: 18206226.
Week 6: “The Ethics of Public Health Research and Intervention” Speaker – Arthur Reingold
• Benatar SR, Daar AS, Singer PA. Global health challenges: the need for an expanded discourse on bioethics. PLoS Med. 2005 Jul;2(7):e143. Epub 2005 Jul 26.
• Kass NE. An ethics framework for public health. Am J Public Health. 2001 Nov;91(11):1776-82. • Pinto AD, Upshur RE. Global health ethics for students. Dev World Bioeth. 2009 Apr;9(1):1-10. • Dickens, BM. Editor’s Choice: The Challenges and Opportunities of Ethics. Am J Public Health.
2005 July; 95(7):1094.
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Week 7: “Fertility and Population” Guest Speaker – Malcolm Potts, Bixby chair in Population and Family Planning, UCB
• Campbell M, Sahin-Hodoglugil NN, Potts M. Barriers to fertility regulation: a review of the literature. Stud Fam Plann. 2006 Jun;37(2):87-98. Review.
• Basu AM. Why does Education Lead to Lower Fertility? A Critical Review of Some of the Possibilities. World Development, 2002;30(10):1779-1790.
Week 8: “Gender Relations and the HIV/AIDS Epidemic: Global Prevention Efforts” Guest Speaker – Shari Dworkin, Associate Professor, Dept. of Social & Behavioral Sciences, UCSF
• Lyles CM, Kay LS, Crepaz N, Herbst JH, Passin WF, Kim AS, Rama SM, Thadiparthi S, DeLuca JB, Mullins MM; HIV/AIDS Prevention Research Synthesis Team. Best-evidence interventions: findings from a systematic review of HIV behavioral interventions for US populations at high risk, 2000-2004. Am J Public Health. 2007 Jan;97(1):133-43. Epub 2006 Nov 30. Review.
• Pronyk PM, Hargreaves JR, Kim JC, Morison LA, Phetla G, Watts C, Busza J, Porter JD. Effect of a structural intervention for the prevention of intimate-partner violence and HIV in rural South Africa: a cluster randomized trial. Lancet. 2006 Dec 2;368(9551):1973-83.
• Higgins JA, Hoffman S, Dworkin SL. Rethinking gender, heterosexual men, and women's vulnerability to HIV/AIDS. Am J Public Health. 2010 Mar;100(3):435-45. Epub 2010 Jan 14. Review.
Week 9: “The Unnecessary Tragedy of Maternal Mortality” Guest Speaker – Suellen Miller, Associate Professor, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology &
Reproductive Sciences, UCSF and Director, Safe Motherhood Programs, Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health, UCSF
• Shiffman J, Smith S. Generation of political priority for global health initiatives: a framework and case study of maternal mortality. Lancet. 2007 Oct 13;370(9595):1370-9. Review.
• Maine D. Detours and shortcuts on the road to maternal mortality reduction. Lancet. 2007 Oct 13;370(9595):1380-2.
• IRIN. “Free care for expectant mothers – is it enough?” March 2 2010.
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Week 10: “Movies as an Infectious Agent Spreading Tobacco-induced Heart Disease and Cancer” Guest Speaker – Stan Glantz, Professor, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine,
School of Medicine, UCSF
• Charlesworth A, Glantz SA. Smoking in the movies increases adolescent smoking: a review. Pediatrics. 2005 Dec;116(6):1516-28. Review.
• Scott AO, “This Article Is Not Yet Rated.” New York Times. January 22, 2010. Available at http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/24/movies/24scott.html?th&emc=th
• Polansky JR, Glantz SA. Taxpayer Subsidies for US Films with Tobacco Imagery. UC San Francisco: Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education. Retrieved from:
• http://escholarship.org/uc/item/8nc8422j • Smoke Free Movies. http://www.smokefreemovies.ucsf.edu/ • World Health Organization. Smoke-Free Movies: From Evidence to Action. Available from
https://bspace.berkeley.edu/access/content/group/370c2bfb-8057-4384-b996-2916fb9ee566/Readings/Week%20of%20Mar%208/Glantz/WHO%20smoke%20free%20movies%202009.pdf
Week 11: “Challenges in Water and Sanitation” Guest Speakers – Jack Colford, Professor of Epidemiology, UCB
& Kara Nelson, Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UCB
• Mäusezahl D, Christen A, Pacheco GD, Tellez FA, Iriarte M, Zapata ME, Cevallos M, Hattendorf J, Cattaneo MD, Arnold B, Smith TA, Colford JM Jr. Solar drinking water disinfection (SODIS) to reduce childhood diarrhoea in rural Bolivia: a cluster-randomized, controlled trial. PLoS Med. 2009 Aug;6(8):e1000125. Epub 2009 Aug 18.
• Fewtrell L, Kaufmann RB, Kay D, Enanoria W, Haller L, Colford JM Jr. Water, sanitation, and hygiene interventions to reduce diarrhoea in less developed countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Lancet Infect Dis. 2005 Jan;5(1):42-52. Review.
• UNICEF and WHO. “Water for Life: Making it Happen.” Geneva: WHO. 2005.
Week 12: “Financing Health in LDCs: Innovation and Change” Guest Speaker - Sir Richard Feachem, Professor of Global Health, UCSF Global Health Sciences
• Ravishankar N, Gubbins P, Cooley RJ, Leach-Kemon K, Michaud CM, Jamison DT, Murray CJ. Financing of global health: tracking development assistance for health from 1990 to 2007. Lancet. 2009 Jun 20;373(9681):2113-24. Erratum in: Lancet. 2009 Nov 21-2009 Nov 27;374(9703):1744.
• The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. http://www.theglobalfund.org/en/ • The RED Campaign. http://www.joinred.com/#home
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Week 13: “Climate Change and Health: Multiple Interactions” Guest Speaker – Kirk Smith, Professor of Global Environmental Health, UCB
• Smith K and Balakrishnan K. Mitigating climate, meeting MDGs, and moderating chronic disease: the health co-benefits landscape. In Commonwealth Ministers’ Update 2009.
• St Louis ME, Hess JJ. Climate change: impacts on and implications for global health. Am J Prev Med. 2008 Nov;35(5):527-38. Review.
Week 14: “Disease Eradication After Smallpox” Speaker – Arthur Reingold
• Caplan, AL. Is disease eradication ethical? In Lancet. 2009 Oct 3;374(9696):1144.
Week 15: “The Real Burden of Malaria in African Children” Guest Speaker – Grant Dorsey, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, UCSF
• Greenwood BM, Bojang K, Whitty CJ, Targett GA. Malaria. Lancet. 2005 Apr 23-29;365(9469):1487-98. Review.
SYLLABUS
DevP 2xx
Climate Change and Energy
FA 2012
Instructors: Dennis Baldocchi, William Nazaroff, Christian Traeger, Robert Rhew, John Chiang, David Roland-‐Holst, Daniel Kammen, Anthony Fisher,
3 hrs LEC/wk
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Energy is one of the fastest evolving areas of analysis, and the primary driver of anthropogenic climate change. In addition to providing a background in the basic science, engineering, economics and public policy aspects of energy technologies, this course will also provide a number of methodological approaches "the tool box" to the analysis of energy choices and impacts. This course will also explore the ways that energy systems differentially empower, impact, and constrain economic development, equity, and environmental management in a range of communities, regions, and nations.
An overview segment will address the conceptual science of climate change: greenhouse gases, earth-‐atmosphere energy flows, weather and climate, carbon transition pathways, paleoclimate and future climate, climate-‐change consequences; Energy technologies for development: fossil fuels, biofuels, micro hydroelectric, solar photovoltaics, solar thermal; Energy end use for development: lighting, cooking, temperature control, transportation.
Another segment of the course will review energy management concepts including tools of environmental and economic life-‐cycle assessment (LCA), centralized and decentralized energy generation, energy efficiency, energy-‐water and energy-‐biodiversity interactions, and energy management and policy across scales.
The third segment will address the political economy of energy and climate change with a focus on global and national strategies, and integrating the divergent interests of corporations, non-‐governmental organizations, elites and community groups, households, and women.
Finally, the course will draw on the tools of economics and finance to introduce business and public policy issues that these changes have raised in energy markets, and in the environmental markets to which they are closely tied. Possible topics include the development and effect of organized spot, futures, and derivative markets in energy commodities and pollution permits; the political economy of deregulation; the environmental impacts and policies related to energy production and use; market power and antitrust in energy and environmental markets; and the
transportation and storage of energy commodities. We examine the economic determinants of industry structure and evolution of competition among firms in these industries; investigate successful and unsuccessful strategies for entering new markets and competing in existing markets; and analyze the rationale for and effects of public policies in energy markets and environmental markets.
GRADING
Midterm (30%), Final (30%), Paper (40%)
COURSE OUTLINE
The Science of Climate Change
Week 1: Introduction: what is climate change?
The Greenhouse effect
Week 2:
Greenhouse gases and radiative forcing
Carbon cycle
Week 3:
Earth’s climate today
Climate models
Week 4:
Past Climate Change
Detection and Attribution of 20th century climate change
Week 5:
Climate Change Projections and Impacts
Mitigation and Adaptation
Technology:
Week 6:
Energy from Fossil Fuels
Week 7:
Conservation and Alternative Energy
Week 8:
Biofuels and Renewables
Week 9:
Carbon Sequestration and Climate Technologies
Economics and Policy
Week 10:
The Global Energy Situation and Integrated Assessment of Climate Change
Week 11:
Sectoral Economic Impacts – Energy, Agriculture and Extreme Heat Events
Global Economic Impacts – Rolling the DICE
Week 12:
Modeling Climate Change and Policies – Issues of Discounting and Uncertainty
Week 13:
Policy Instruments: Standards, Taxes, Cap and Trade, Life Cycle Based Policies
Week 14:
International Environmental Agreements
READINGS:
Week 1:
Selected chapters from Weart, The discovery of global warming. Harvard Press, 2008
Kump, Kasting & Crane, The Earth System. Pearson Prentice Hall. 2004, pp34-‐43
Week 2:
Kump Kasting & Crane, pp44-‐53. (second half of chapter 3)
Gautier, C. Oil, Water, and Climate: an introduction. Cambridge Press, 2008. Ch4 (pp59-‐80): carbon cycle and the human impact
Week 3:
Chapter 2 of Ruddiman, Earth’s Climate: Past and Future. Freeman 2001.
Schmidt: The physics of climate modeling. Physics Today, v60, p72-‐73 (2007)
Week 4:
Alley, R. 2004. “Abrupt Climate Change.” Scientific American, November: 62-‐69.
Spencer Weart – Essay on ice ages titled “Past Cycles: Ice Age Speculations”
National Research Council. 2001. “Climate Change Science: An Analysis of Some Key Questions.” Washington, DC: National Academy Press.
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 2007. Working Group 1: Summary for Policymakers”. pp2-‐12
Week 5:
Kump, Kastings and Crane pp 324-‐334 (part of Ch16 on global warming)
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 2007. Working Group 1: Summary for Policymakers”. pp.12-‐17
“Our Changing Climate: assessing the risks to California” – summary report from the California climate change center
Broecker (2007), “CO2 Arithmetic”. Science, v316, 829-‐830 (2007)
Week 10: W.D. Nordhaus. “A Question of Balance: Weighing the Options on Global Warming Policies, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2008.
N. Stern et al. “Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change.” HM Treasury, 2007.
Week 11: Readings: Aroonruengsawat and Auffhammer, 2010 (University of Chicago Press), Schlenker and Roberts, 2010 (PNAS), Deschênes and Greenstone, 2010 (NBER).
Week 12: Readings: Nordhaus (2008), Chapters 2, 5 and 9
B. Groom, C. Hepburn, P. Koundouri, and D. Pearce. “Declining Discount Rates: The Long and the Short of It.” Environmental & Resource Economics, Vol. 32 (2005), pp. 445-493.
M.L. Weitzman. “A Review of the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change.” Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. 45 (2007), pp. 703-724.
W.D. Nordhaus. “A Review of the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change.” Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. 45 (2007), pp. 703-724.
P. Dasgupta. “Commentary: The Stern Review’s Economics of Climate Change.” National Institute Economic Review, Vol. 199, No. 1 (2007), pp. 4-7.
T. Sterner and U.M. Persson. “An Even Sterner Review: Introducing Relative Prices into the Discounting Debate”, Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, Vol. 2 (2008), pp. 61–76.
G. Asheim, Intergenerational Equity, Annual Review of Economics, Forthcoming 2010.
M.L. Weitzman. “Gamma Discounting.” American Economic Review, Vol. 91 (2001), pp. 260-271.
M.L. Weitzman. “On Modeling and Interpreting the Economics of Catastrophic Climate Change,” Review of Economics and Statistics: 91(1) (2009), pp. 1–19.
C. Gollier and M. Weitzman. “How Should the Distant Future be Discounted when Discount Rates are Uncertain”, CESifo Working Paper No. 2863 (2009).
D. L. Kelly and C.D. Kolstad. ‘Bayesian learning, growth, and pollution’, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control Vol. 23 (1999), pp. 491–518.
K. Keller B.M. Bolker and D.F. Bradford. „Uncertain climate thresholds and optimal economic growth”, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Vol. 48 (2004), pp.723-741.
Week 13: Readings: Lecture Notes, Berck and Helfand (2010)
M.L. Weitzman. “Prices vs. Quantities”, Review of Economic Studies Vol. 41 (1974), pp. 477-‐491.
Week 14: Readings: Lecture Notes, Barrett, 2003 (Oxford UP), Chapters 6 and 15
SYLLABUS
DevP 2xx
Interactive/Multidisciplinary Seminar
Fall 2011
Seminar Leaders: David Zilberman, Sebastian Teunissen, George Scharffenberger, Robin Marsh Units: 2 hrs seminar/wk
COURSE DESCRIPTION
The seminar has four purposes:
First, it provides an opportunity for MDP students to listen to, to discuss with and be challenged by a diverse group of invited guest speakers. Some will be academics; some, seasoned practitioners; others will be both. They will include leading UC Berkeley faculty not otherwise involved in the MDP curriculum. Others will be drawn from the wealth of experiential knowledge within the Bay Area’s innovative international development community and that of visiting thought leaders from around the world.
Second, the seminar provides students with an opportunity to integrate insights and experiential learning from other parts of the curriculum into a more holistic understanding of the concept, purpose and challenges of sustainable development practice.
Third, the seminar provides an opportunity for students to reflect on and to develop skills related to their role as practitioners of sustainable development. This will include discussion on the ethics and politics of international development as well as the role of institutional actors -- governments, international development agencies, NGOs, civil society organizations, and business (multi-national corporations, traditional businesses and social enterprises). Guest academics and practitioners will provide personal insights and facilitated discussions will build on assigned readings.
Finally, the seminar provides the opportunity for students to prepare for and reflect on their hands-on experience. The two internships (during the summer break between year one and year two, and during the winter break of year two) are key parts of the MDP’s overall learning experience. The seminar provides students with an opportunity to share plans and ideas with their peers before they go to the field and to share their lessons after they come back.
CLASS FORMAT
The seminar meets on a weekly basis and consists of presentations and guided discussions led by faculty and students. The format for discussions includes panels, role-plays and debates in addition to more traditional facilitated group discussions. Most classes feature one or more guest speakers. Students do background reading/discussion to prepare for each
seminar, sharing their issues and questions with speakers prior to the sessions. Some classes include viewing and discussion of documentary films that highlight specific issues in international development or the role of international development practitioners.
READINGS
Readings will be assigned in consultation with visiting speakers.
ASSESSMENT
Assessment is based entirely upon participation.
SYLLABUS DevP 2xx
Law, Politics, and Policymaking SP 2012
Instructors: Daniel Farber, Gordon Rausser
Units (3) 3 hrs LEC/wk
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Law, Politics, and Policymaking will introduce students to principles of law, the mechanisms of politics, political economy, and policymaking delving into fundamentals of business, as well as environmental, international, and human rights law in the context of development. This course will provide students with insights into the complex, non-technical, real-world contexts in which sustainable development practice takes place. It will consist of case studies including Political Economy of Biotechnology Regulation, Public R&D, Land Reform, Water, and Transition Economies.
Key takeaways:
- basics of legislatures, courts and regulators and interaction with politicians, the public and experts;
- rule of law culture, conflict of interest, anti-corruption - decisionmaking techniques - regulatory instruments - formal and informal legal systems - compliance tools - evaluation tools and adaptive management - use of community/public knowledge, legitimacy - how to run a public participation process - when and how to prepare an EIS - interplay of domestic, foreign and international policy/law - rights and obligations vis-à-vis neighboring states and international
community
GRADING
Case Studies (50%), Final (50%)
COURSE OUTLINE
Week 1 - Private Sector, Public Sector: Law and Regulation
Case study: Solar power
The case study will look at aspects of the development of solar power in California: legal incentives to investors; the role of subsidies and the legal “strings” attached to subsidized projects; the attempt to site a centralized installation in the desert, ideally compared to a successful solar project elsewhere; regulatory review, public participation, NGO litigation and ultimate success of one approach and rejection of the desert project. Illustrates the different parties involved and the role of law in facilitating transactions, structuring financial incentives, etc.
Readings may cover the role of government, citizens, nongovernmental organizations, the media, epistemic networks, smallholders, domestic corporations and global enterprises in the legal processes that facilitate and influence development. Channeling conflicting and synergistic incentives productively. Legitimacy, transparency. Legal Systems: Legislative, Judicial, Customary, Religious, International – Frequently, different legal systems co-exist side by side: international law, national legislation, common law, state legislation, customary law, religious law. What will contract law, water law, environmental protection law, waste disposal law, disaster law, public health law do for development? Are those goals best served by existing legal systems, or if not, what is needed?
Week 2 - Regulation of Toxic Substances, Waste Management and Pollution Prevention, Air and Water Pollution Control
Case study: Stoves in Ethiopia
The case study will look at regulating indoor air pollution, enforcing forestry laws, avoiding sexual assault, benefiting from Kyoto Protocol CDM incentives – Berkeley Lab, Ashok Gadgil project
Readings may cover Law and Economics: Understanding how economic incentives and disincentives can undermine or be tools for implementation of laws. Pollution: Protecting People – Agricultural chemicals, industrial exposures, cooking fires, contaminated water and other aspects of modern life can expose people to pollution that harms health. Students learn to reduce pollution, and to regulate where it cannot be entirely avoided. Basic concepts of command and control regulation; voluntary controls; incorporating by reference regulatory standards developed by IOs and national leaders.
Week 3 - Decision Tools
Case study: Climate change and New Orleans
Readings may cover Risk and Precaution – Risk assessment, cost benefit analysis, or precautionary approaches guide policy selection and underlie legal approaches. Climate change models and experimental technologies. Law, Science and Economics – Good laws take into account scientific knowledge and economic considerations and treat both as variable, not static. Students will learn how
legislation, regulatory implementation of laws, and administrative/judicial oversight take science and economics into account. Adaptive management; scientific review; accessing information resources.
- The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity for National and International Policy Makers (2010) http://www.teebweb.org/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=I4Y2nqqIiCg%3d&tabid=1021&language=en-US
Week 4 - Environmental Assessment
Case study: World Bank environmental assessment of [a major project]
Readings may cover Civil, Social, Environmental Rights and Laws – Rights-based approaches to life, water, biodiversity, traditional landscapes, development. Environmental Impact Assessment – Required by international and domestic law, and foreign investors, a primary tool for decisionmaking. Public participation and comment, no action alternative, transparency, record keeping, cumulative impacts.
Week 5 – Enforcement
Case study: [consider no case study this week]
Readings may cover Judicial and administrative enforcement; citizen enforcement through information sharing and citizen suits; inspectors general (who guards the guardians); addressing accidental versus intentional harms.
Week 6 - Land Use Regulation and Public Land Management
Case study: California development project
Readings may cover Land use, Forest Policy – Local and global deforestation policies; indigenous claims; carbon accounting. Coastal Zone Management, Fisheries
Week - – Resilience
Case study: To be determined
Readings may cover Disaster Law, preparing for disaster; learning from disaster. Climate change adaptation.
Week 7 – Resource Exploitation
Case study: Deepwater Horizon and deep water oil and gas exploitation
Readings may cover Managing Ecoystems: Resource Exploitation, Handling Waste, Agriculture, Sharing Water, Land Use Controls – Protecting and conserving renewable resources, like water, local/state/federal cooperation
Week 8 – Globalization
Case study: Global trade in biofuels
Readings may cover Exports and Imports: Transnational Pollution – Developing countries are importers and exporters, subject to international trade law and international environmental law. Treaties protect developing countries from imported pollution such as toxic waste. Other treaties, such as the EU REACH program and CITES, prohibit imports of certain chemicals and biological substances in products exported to other countries. Trade Rules – Compulsory licensing, national treatment, and so on – some trade law lowers barriers and makes goods and services cheaper and more available to developing countries while other trade rules can create barriers. Climate change technologies, pharmaceuticals … The expertise and expense of participating in negotiations and disputes seem out of reach. This section of the course highlights key trade issues and the resources available to assist developing country participation.
Week 9 – Theories of Political Economy
Readings: Chapter 1 of Political Power and Economic Policy: Theory, Analysis, and Empirical Applications.
Rausser, Gordon, J. Swinnen, P Zusman. 2010. Political Power and Economic Policy: Theory, Analysis, and Empirical Applications. Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.
Week 10 – Rent Seeking and Interest Groups
Readings: Krueger, A.O. 1974. “The Political Economy of the Rent-Seeking Society.” American Economic Review 64: 291-303.
Krueger, A.O. 1996. “Political economy of agricultural policy,” Public Choice 87: 73-175.
Tullock, G. 1967. “The Welfare Costs of Tariffs, Monopolies and Theft.” Western Economics Journal 5: 224-232.
Week 11 – Political Power, Influence and Lobbying and Governance Structures
Readings: Rausser, G.C., J. Swinnen, and P. Zusman. Political Power and Economic Policy, Chapters 7 and 8.
Rausser, G.C., J. Swinnen, and P. Zusman. Political Power and Economic Policy, Chapter 9.
Week 12, 13, 14 – Case Studies
- Political Economy of Biotechnology Regulation - Political Economy of Public R&D - Political Economy of Land Reform - Political Economy of Water - Political Economy of Transition Economies
Reading: Rausser, G.C., J. Swinnen, and P. Zusman. Political Power and Economic Policy, Part 3.
SYLLABUS
DevP 2xx
Strategic Planning and Project Management
Fall 2011
Instructors: Arpad Horvath, Alice Agogino, John Danner, William Ibbs, George Scharffenberger
2 hrs LEC + 1 hr DIS
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course consists of two hours of lecture per week plus a one hour discussion group. The lectures will have two segments. The first part of the course is designed to give students in the new Masters of Development Practice a pragmatic, interdisciplinary introduction to strategic planning and project management, two skills fundamental to the long- and short-term success of development organizations. It will expose them to a portfolio of models, tools and techniques drawn from the private, nonprofit and public sectors; and offer an opportunity – through case studies, simulations and class projects – to apply those approaches in settings relevant to the development field.
The second portion of the course will examine and build skills in project management as it applies to the practice of international development. It will introduce and use the concept of the “project cycle” as its organizing principle. The course will develop an understanding of and build/refine skills needed for project identification, formulation, appraisal/commitment, implementation, evaluation, and closing. The course will highlight and provide opportunities for students to develop and practice the skills of an effective project manager: technical, problem solving, negotiation, conceptual, interpersonal, leadership, and communication. Reference projects used in the course will include those of international development organizations, not-for-profit organizations (NGOs) and social enterprises. The course will include critiques of classical project management methods and, in particular, their use for international development. Overviews of several alternative models will be explored.
CLASS FORMAT
Classroom activities will consist of lectures and discussions on a specific stage of the project cycle with students and invited international development practitioners sharing their experiences and lessons learned related to the stage of the project cycle being discussed. Each class will include one or more examples of “what can go wrong.” Students will develop strategies to either avoid or deal with the referenced challenge(s) by applying project manager skills.
CLASS PROJECT
During the course, each student will develop a prototype project proposal, including description, justification, implementation plan, timeline, budget, monitoring and evaluation plan, and marketing strategy. Work on project proposals will be outside of class though time will be allotted within select classes for students to present their progress and to solicit peer assistance.
GRADING
Project (50%), Midterm (20%), Final (20%), Class Participation (10%)
COURSE OUTLINE
PART I:
Week 1: Strategic Planning 101 • What is strategy in the first place?
• What analytical and conceptual models do organizations use in developing strategic plans?
• What are their respective strengths and weaknesses?
• Does strategic planning differ significantly among different types of organizations?
Readings:
"What is Strategy?" Michael A. Porter, Harvard Business Review (1996-11-01)
Private Sector Strategies for Social Sector Success: The Guide to Strategy and Planning for Public and Nonprofit Organizations, Kevin P. Kearns, Jossey-Bass, 2000
"The Fall and Rise of Strategic Planning," Henry Mintzberg, Harvard Business Review: Jan/Feb 1994: 107-114
Creative Destruction, Foster, R., and Kaplan, S., New York: Doubleday, Chapter 11
Strategic planning for public and nonprofit organizations: A guide to strengthening and sustaining organizational achievement, Bryson, John M., San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. 3rd ed., 2006
Week 2: Strategic Planning Toolkit (a sampler) • What does the basic repertoire of strategic planning tools include? For example,
how does scenario planning differ from SWOT analysis, the BCG Matrix or “Five Forces” tools?
Readings:
Strategic Planning: What Every Manager Must Know, Steiner, G.A., The Free Press, 1997 (excerpts)
“Making strategy: Learning by doing,” Christensen, C. M., Harvard Business Review (Nov-Dec 1997)
Case:
“Rwanda: National Economic Transformation,” Michael Porter, Michael McCreless, Harvard Business School Case, 2008
Week 3: Strategy - From The Outside In and Inside Out • How can organizations assess the environments within which they will likely
[choose to] operate in the future?
• How can one develop effective strategies in the middle of major changes, whether technological, political, economic or other?
• How does an organization define a compelling vision to guide its strategic planning?
• How do internal factors – culture, core competencies, tradition, etc. – affect strategic plans?
Readings:
“Strategy making in novel and complex worlds: The power of analogy,” Gavetti, G., Levinthal, D. A., & Rivkin, J. W., Strategic Management Journal (2005), 26(8), 691-712
“Creating Strategy in an Unknowable Universe,” Eric D. Beinhocker, HBS Working Knowledge, 6/19/2006 (from The Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics, 2006, McKinsey & Company
“Framing contests: Strategy making under uncertainty,” Kaplan, S., Organization Science (2008), 19(5), 729-752
“Cartographic myths in organizations,” Weick, K. E., in A. S. Huff (Ed.), Mapping Strategic Thought, Chichester, England: John Wiley & Sons, 1990
Shaping A Region’s Future: A Guide to Strategic Decision-Making for Regions, William R. Dodge and Kim Montgomery
Case:
“Panmai Co-Operative (Revised 2002)”, Paul W. Beamish, Elizabeth M.A. Grasby,
Krista, Ivey School of Business
Week 4: From Developing Strategic Plans (Where?) to Managing Strategic Projects (How?)
• What’s the linkage between organizational strategy, operational unit business plans and critical projects?
• What are the fundamental challenges associated with managing projects?
Readings:
“Placing Strategic Bets: The Portfolio Approach--Measuring and Managing Innovation Risk,” from Harvard Business Essentials: The Innovator's Toolkit, HBS Press, 2009
A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge: (Pmbok Guide), Project Management Institute, 2008
“Project Management as Process: Four Phases,” from Managing Projects Large and Small: The Fundamental Skills for Delivering on Budget and on Time, HBS Press, 2004
“Lofty Missions, Down-to-Earth Plans,” V. Kasturi Rangan. Harvard Business Review: March 2004
Week 5: Life Inside a PMO (Project Management Organization) • What kinds of decisions and tradeoffs do successful project managers have to
make? How can project managers optimize performance while remaining on time and under budget?
• Why do so many vital projects fail?
Readings:
Using the Project Management Maturity Model: Strategic Planning for Project Management, Harold Kerzner, Wiley, 2005
Case/Simulation:
“Project Management Simulation: Scope, Resources, Schedule,”
Robert D. Austin, Harvard Business School Product 3356-HTM-ENG, 2009
Weeks 6 and 7: The Horizon for Project Managers • What new models and tools are emerging that may improve the art of project
management in complex organizations?
• How do these link with organizational change, balanced scorecard and business process integration frameworks?
Readings:
Reinventing Project Management for Your Organization, Aaron J. Shenhar, Dov Dvir, HBS Press, 2007
Project Management: Strategic Design and Implementation,
David Cleland, Lewis Ireland, McGraw-Hill, 2006
Other Resources:
“Strategic Planning and the Pursuit of Reform,” Mier, R.; Moe, K.J.; and Sherr, I. Economic Development and Equity. Journal of the American Planning Association. 52, 3, Summer, 1986
Fred R. David, Strategic Management: Concepts, 10/E. Englewood Cliffs, NJ, Prentice Hall, 2005
The Strategy Concept and Process: A Pragmatic Approach, (2nd Edition), Arnoldo C. Hax (Author), Nicolas S. Majluf, Prentice Hall, 1996
Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant, W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne, HBS Press, 2005
PART II:
Project Management for International Development: The Project Cycle
TEXT
Fundamentals of Project Management for Development Organizations (Second Edition). Project Management for Development (PM4D), 2009. [provisional]
Week 8 and 9: Project Identification and Project Formulation
• What is a project • Project cycle • Project design processes • Project stakeholders: implementing organizations, funders, direct and
indirect beneficiaries, customers, neighbors and more • Programs: long and medium term objectives • Conceptual models/theory of change • Introduction to the logical framework/results framework • Goals • Objectives • Activities • Indicators: process/results • Means of verification
Week 10: Project Appraisals and Commitment
• Project Proposal • Implementation Plan • Budgeting • Innovation and Strengths • Risk Assessment • Sustainability analysis
o Social o Financial o Technical o Organizational/Mgt o Environmental
• Marketing Plan • Internal support: Champions
Week 11: Project Implementation
• Management/leadership styles • The project management ecosystem • Project management constraints: scope, resources, schedule, quality • Managing scope • Managing resources: Human, financial, information • Managing schedule: Workplan • Managing for quality: Stakeholder relations and partnerships • Monitoring
Weeks 12: Project Evaluation and close out
• Process v. Outputs v. Outcomes v. Impact • Evaluation purpose and evaluation design • Understanding and disseminating evaluation results • Integrating learning into programs and projects
• Project closeout: Going out in style Week 13: Critiques and Alternatives to Classical Project Management
• Critiques o International development
Development: with whom, by whom and for whom? The problem of “participation” Fundamentally bureaucratic: distorted market signals
o One size can’t fit all Building a house and developing software are different than
transforming agricultural Cultural biases: linear, hierarchical, non-relational
o Imperfectly practiced Art v. science Wrong assumptions/wrong theory of change = uncertain
outcome • Alternatives
o Market-based strategies/output based aid o Design thinking o Project Management 2.0
Week 14: Lessons from the class and the project
• What did we learn from the course about our strengths and weaknesses in strategic design and project management?
• What do we need to know?
• How can we make this knowledge more practical?
SYLLABUS
DevP 2XX
Environmental Economics and Policy
Fall Semester 2011
Lecturers: David Zilberman, David Sunding, David Roland-Holst, Richard Norgaard
3 hrs LEC/wk
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course will introduce the students to the basic concepts of environmental economics including economic welfare, externality, public good, global commons, policy approaches for dealing with externality - regulation, taxation, liability, cap and trade, valuation of environmental benefits/damage, concept of nonmarket value, revealed preference, stated preference, hedonic, value of a statistical life. We will consider distributional effects of environmental policies and challenges of implementation including monitoring and enforcement. It will address design of policies at various scales form the village to the global commons. Part of the course will include case studies where groups of participants will work together to design economic incentives and policy solutions to major problems. It will have sections on particular problems including climate change, water and air quality, animal waste, toxic contamination, forestry and fishery policy.
GRADING
Midterm (30%), Final (40%), Paper (30%)
COURSE OUTLINE
Lecture 1: Basic Welfare Economics
Lecture 2-5: Externality and Public Good Control Policies
-‐ Policy Objectives and Tools
-‐ The Role of Government vs. Markets
-‐ Political Economy of Environmental Policy
-‐ Implementation and Monitoring
Lecture 6: Payment for Ecosystem Services, other externality case studies
Lecture 7-8: Technology and Environmental Risk
Lecture 9-10: Precision and Ecological Agriculture
-‐ Irrigation
-‐ Pest and Disease Control
-‐ Biotechnology
Lecture 11-12: Valuation of Environmental Amenities: Theory and Case Studies
Lecture 13-14: Review/MIDTERM
Lecture 15-18: Dynamic Systems
-‐ Discounting and Benefit-Cost Analysis
-‐ Renewable Resources
-‐ Nonrenewable Resources
-‐ Irreversibility
Lecture 19-20: Forestry and Fisheries
Lecture 21-22: Water and Land
-‐ Economics of Surface and Groundwater
-‐ Water projects
-‐ Land Value
Lecture 23-24: International Trade, Development and the Environment
Lecture 25-26: Economics of Climate Change and Energy
Lecture 27: Biodiversity
Lecture 28: Review
READINGS
Lecture 1:
When is a Market Socially Optimal?; Welfare Economics
Lecture 2-5:
Negative Externalities and Policy; Pollution Control under Heterogeneity; Property Rights and Political Economy; Public Goods; and Public Goods, part 2
Lecture 6:
Engel, Stefanie, Stefano Pagiola, and Sven Wunder. Designing payments for environmental services in theory and practice: An overview of the issues. Ecological Economics 65 (2008) 663-674. Elsevier.
Wunder, Sven, Stefanie Engel, Stefano Pagiola. Taking stock: A comparative analysis of payments for environmental services programs in developed and developing countries. Ecological Economics 65 (2008) 834-852. Elsevier.
Lecture 7-8:
Sunding, D. and Zilberman, D., 2001. The agricultural innovation process: research and technology adoption in a changing agricultural sector. In: Gardner, B. and Rausser, G., Editors, 2001. Handbook of Agricultural Economics vol. 1, Elsevier.
Lichtenberg, Erik. Economics of Health Risk Assessment. Annual Review of Resource Economics. 2010 (forthcoming)
Lecture 9-10:
Khanna, Madhu and David Zilberman. Incentives, precision technology and environmental protection. Ecological Economics 23 (1997) 25-43. Elsevier.
Qaim, Matin. The Economics of Genetically Modified Crops. Annual Review of Resource Economics (2009) vol. 1:665-694.
Lecture 11-12:
Caron, Richard T. (March 3, 2000).Contingent Valuation: A User’s Guide. Environmental Science and Technology. Vol. 34, No. 8, pp 1413-1418.
Reader Chapter: Valuation of Environmental Benefits
Cropper, Maureen L. and Wallace E. Oates. Environmental Economics: A Survey. Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. 30, No. 2 (June 1992), pp. 675-740
Lecture 13-14: Review and Midterm
Lecture 15-18:
Reader for EEP 102, David Sunding, Lectures on these topics
Lecture 19-20:
Reader for EEP 101, David Zilberman, Lectures on these topics
Lecture 21-22:
Schoengold, K. & Zilberman, D. (2007). The economics of water, irrigation and development. In Handbook of Agricultural Economics: Agricultural
Development: Farmers, Farm Production and Farm Markets. Vol. 3, pages 2933-2977. Evenson, R. E., Pingali, P. & Schultz, T. P. (eds). North-Holland, Amsterdam.
Otsuka, Keijiro (2007). Efficiency and Equity Effects of Land Markets. In Handbook of Agricultural Economics: Agricultural Development: Farmers, Farm Production and Farm Markets. Vol. 3, pages 2671-2703. Evenson, R. E., Pingali, P. & Schultz, T. P. (eds). North-Holland, Amsterdam.
Lecture 23-24:
Beghin, John, David Roland-Holst, and Dominique van der Mensbrugghe. A Survey of the Trade and Environmental Nexus: Global Dimensions. OECD Economic Studies No. 23, Winter 1994.
Lecture notes EEP 101 on this topic
Lecture 25-26:
Popp, David. Innovation and Climate Policy. Annual Review of Resource Economics (2010), Vol. 2, pp. 275-298
Mendelsohn, Robert, and Ariel Dinar. Land Use and Climate Change Interaction. Annual Review of Resource Economics (2009) Vol. 1, pp 309-332.
Lecture 27:
Polasky, Stephen, and Kathleen Segerson. Integrating Ecology and Economics in the Study of Ecosystem Services: Some Lessons Learned. Annual Review of Resource Economics (2009) Vol. 1, pp. 435-459.
SYLLABUS
DevP 2xx
Innovation, Product Development and Markets
Instructors: Sofia Villas-‐Boas, Sara Boettiger
Units (3) 2hrs/wk LEC + 1 hr discussion
COURSE DESCRIPTION
The course will include presentations on basic concepts of innovation and product development and marketing in the context of development, as well as weekly meetings to develop and present individual projects.
The first sequence of presentations will introduce an overview of innovation systems including the innovation process from research to innovation to development, commercialization and marketing. It will analyze alternative knowledge and innovation systems and the role of public and private sector interactions; Culture and innovation; Innovation and regulation.
A second sequence will address mechanisms of transfer of technologies between and within countries as well as sectors. It will present analysis of alternative structures of transfer of knowledge and technologies from universities to the private sector; technology transfer across nations; and mechanisms to analyze adoption and diffusion of technologies.
The last segment on marketing, strategy and consumer behavior deals with the challenge of bringing to market efficient solutions to strong customer needs. This challenge is fundamental in customer-‐based innovation. It will create in the context of developing countries a framework to take a concept, assess consumer response and develop a successful marketing network. In many cases this is a physical products and in other cases it could be a concept like integrated pest management. In addition, the setup needs to take into account that the “entrepreneurs” are very poor people, sometimes partially funded by non-‐profit driven agencies, sometimes not. The industrial organization aspects are very important in the context of development. In many cases there are monopolies that serve as constraints to initiatives, so designing marketing chains requires understanding of the marketing network, the industrial organization and the role of policy.
GRADING
Midterm (30%), Final (40%), Paper (30%)
COURSE OUTLINE
Week 1: Alternative Theories of Innovation and Their Implication
Week 2: Innovation Systems and Policies: The Role of the Public Sector
Week 3: Design and Selection of Research and Development Projects
Week 4: Intellectual Property Rights and Commercialization of Innovation
Week 5: Technology Transfer In Practice
Week 6: Alternative Perspectives on Diffusion of Technologies and Their Implications
Week 7: Adoption of Technologies in Developing Countries
Week 8: Marketing and Product Positioning
Week 9: Developing ideas to meet consumer needs
Week 10: Assessing Consumer Demand
Week 11: Measuring Willingness to Pay for Product Attributes
Week 12: Case Studies
Week 13: Distribution
Week 14: Marketing Tools
READING
Weeks 1-7:
Blank, Steven Gary, “Four Steps to the Epiphany”, chapter 1 and 2, Cafepress.com, 2004.
Edquist, Charles. Systems of innovation: Perspectives and Challenges. Chapter 7. The Oxford handbook of innovation, Oxford University Press, eds. Jan Fagerberg, David C. Mowery, Richard R. Nelson (2005).
Masters, William A. Paying for Prosperity: How and Why to Invest in Agricultural R&D for Development in Africa. Journal of International Affairs, vol. 58, no. 2, Spring 2005. Special Issue on Finance Challenges of the Millennium Development Goals.
Sunding, David, and David Zilberman. “The Agricultural Innovation Process: Research and Technology Adoption in a Changing Agricultural Sector,” Handbook of Agricultural Economics, Volume 1A Agricultural Production, ed. Bruce L. Gardner and Gordon C. Rausser (Amsterdam, the Netherlands: Elsevier Science B. V., 2001), pp. 207-‐261.
Graff, Gregory, Amir Heiman, and David Zilberman. “University Research and Offices of Technology Transfer,” California Management Review, Vol. 45, No. 1 (Fall, 2002), pp. 88-‐115.
Chigona, W., and P. Licker. Using diffusion of innovations framework to explain communal facilities adoption among the urban poor. Information technologies and international development. (2008), Vol. 4, Iss. 3, pp. 57
Gregory Graff, “Echoes of Bayh-‐Dole: A Survey of Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer Policies in Emerging and Developing Economies” in A. Krattiger, R. Mahoney, L. Nelsen, et al, Eds., Intellectual Property Management in Health and Agricultural Innovation: A Handbook of Best Practices. (MIHR: Oxford, UK and PIPRA: Davis, CA. 2007), pp. 169-‐196.
Gourville, John T., "Note on Innovation Diffusion: Rogers' Five Factors”, Journal of Product Innovation Management, 2006.
Gourville, John, “Eager Sellers, Stony Buyers”, Harvard Business Review, 2006. (optional)
Managing sales: Leslie, Mark and Holloway, Charles A., “The Sales Learning Curve”, Harvard Business Publishing, 2006.
Weeks 8-14:
Patnaik, Dev and Robert Becker, “Needfinding: The Why and How of Uncovering People's Needs,” Design Management Journal, 1999.
Ulwick, Anthony, “Turn Customer Input into Innovation”, Harvard Business Review, 2002.
Bower, Joseph L., and Clayton M Christensen, “Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave,” Harvard Business Review, 1995.
von Hippel, E., S. Thomke, M. Sonnack, “Creating Breakthroughs at 3M,” Harvard Business Review, 1999.
Dolan, Robert J., “Analyzing Consumer Preferences”, Harvard Business Publishing, 1999.
Green, Paul E., and Yoram Wind, “New Way to Measure Consumer Judgments”, Harvard Business Review, 1975.
Visser, P. S., Krosnick, J. A., & Lavrakas, P. J. (2000). Survey research. In H. T. Reis and C. M Judd (Eds.) Handbook of research methods in social and personality psychology Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK, pp. 230-‐237.
Petty, R.E. & Caccioppo, J.T. (1981) Attitudes and Persuasion: Classic and Contemporary Approaches, Wm. C. Brown Company Publishers: Dubuque, Iowa, pp. 6-‐29.
Himmelfarb, S. (1993) The Measurement of Attitudes, In A.H. Eagly, & S. Chaiken, The Psychology of Attitudes, pp. 23-‐29 & 52-‐57.
Schwarz, N. (1999) Self-‐Reports: How the Questions Shape the Answers. American Psychologist, Vol. 54, No. 2, pp. 93-‐105.
Becker, Robert, "Direct Observation: Some Practical Advice", Jump White Paper, Jump Associates, 1999.
Patnaik, Dev, "System Logics: How Companies Organize Their Offerings To Solve Big Needs", Design Management Journal, 2004 (optional).
Page, Albert L. and Harold F. Rosenbaum, “Redesigning Product Lines with Conjoint Analysis: How Sunbeam Does It,” Journal of Product Innovation Management, 1987
Dolan, Robert J., “Concept testing note”, Harvard Business Publishing, 1989.
Caswell, J.A., and D.I. Padberg. “Toward a More Comprehensive Theory of Food Labels.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 74(1992):460-‐68.
Dhar, T. and J. D. Foltz. “Milk by Any Other Name…Consumer Benefits from Labeled Milk.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 87(2005):214-‐228.
DuPuis, E. “Not in my body: rBGH and the rise of organic milk.” Agriculture andHuman Values 17(2000): 285-‐295.
Huffman, W.E., Shogren, J.F., Rousu, M., and Tegene, A. “Consumer Willingness to Pay for Genetically Modified Foods Labels in a Market with Diverse Information: Evidence from Experimental Auctions.” Journal of Agricultural Resource Economics 28(2003):481-‐502.
Ippolito P.M., J.K. Pappalardo. Advertising, Nutrition & Health. Evidence from Food Advertising. Washington, DC: Federal Trade Commission, Bureau of Economics Staff Report, September 2002.
Ippolito, P.M., and A.D. Mathios. “Information and Advertising: The Case of Fat Consumption in the United States.” American Economic Review 85(1995):91-‐95.
Kiesel, K. and S. Villas-‐Boas, 2007. "Got Organic Milk? Consumer Valuations of Milk Labels after the Implementation of the USDA Organic Seal," Journal of Agricultural & Food Industrial Organization: Vol. 5 : Iss. 1, Article 4.
Rosen, S. “Hedonic Prices and Implicit Markets: Product Differentiation in Pure Competition.” Journal of Political Economy 82(1974):34-‐55.
Marks, L. Kalaitzandonakes N., and Vickner, S. “Evaluating Consumer Response to GM Foods: Some Methodological Considerations.” Current Agriculture, Food & Resource Issues 4(2003):80-‐94.
Marn, Michael V., Eric V. Roegner, and Craig C. Zawada, “Pricing New Products,” McKinsey Quarterly, 2003.
Lancaster, K. (1990), “The Economics of Product Variety: A Survey,” Marketing Science, 9 (3), 189-‐206. Link to paper.
Jedidi, K., C. Mela and S. Gupta (1999), “Managing Advertising and Promotion for Long-‐run Profitability,” Marketing Science, 18 (1), 1-‐22. Link to paper
Villas-‐Boas, J. M. (1993), “Predicting Advertising Pulsing Policies in an Oligopoly: A Model and Empirical Test,” Marketing Science, 12 (1), 88-‐102. Link to paper
Choi, S. (1991), “Price Competition in a Channel Structure with a Common Retailer,” Marketing Science, 10 (4), 271-‐296. Link to paper to be added.
Messinger, P. and C. Narasimhan (1995), “Has Power Shifted in the Grocery Channel?” Marketing Science, 14 (2), 189-‐223. Link to paper tba.
SYLLABUS
DevP 2XX
Leadership, Conflict Resolution, and Community Development
SP Semester 2012
Instructors: Isha Ray, Susan Carpenter, Tony Barclay
Units (3) 2 hrs LEC + 1 hr DIS/wk
COURSE DESCRIPTION
The course presents an interdisciplinary perspective and hands-on skills for communal resource management, leadership and conflict resolution in the context of development. The first segment provides a critical overview of the literature on communal resource management, emphasizing participatory approaches, with several case studies. It also sheds light on the relationship between government agencies and NGOs in the context of resource management. The second part of the course will provide an overview of the theory and skills needed to work productively with local, national and international partners in urban and rural settings to support desired development outcomes. The course will include components on leadership styles, personality temperaments, effective communication, consensus decision-making, negotiation, and collaborative processes. The course will help the students develop an understanding of their own strengths and weaknesses as leaders and to nurture their confidence to envision themselves as, and aspire to be, leaders throughout their careers. Another segment will be on Community Capacity and Community Participation. The last segment of the course will address issues of conflict and policymaking in a global context and provide the institutional perspective of development organizations and strategies.
GRADING
Class Participation (30%), Midterm (30%), Final (40%)
COURSE OUTLINE
Week 1: What is community-based natural resource management and how does community participation foster sustainable resource management practices? Insights from common-pool economics / institutional economics /anthropology.
Week 2: Critical development theory and its views on the centrality of community & of participation. In what key ways does their support of community based management differ from Ostrom, Dasgupta, World Bank?
Week 3: Detailed discussion of 3 case studies on irrigation / forestry /conservation from S Asia and Africa (e.g. Nepalese irrigation systems /joint forest management in India / CAMPFIRE in Zimbabwe)
Week 4: How did community-based natural resource management / community participation become central in the agenda of international development practice? The history of participation from a counter-movement / critique of centralized project planning to a mainstream & favored option – now supported by World Bank, leading NGOs, many national governments. What rationales for participation (going back to the literatures in Weeks 1 &2) did various groups draw on for support?
Week 5: Critiques of participation as "the new tyranny", constraints to participation in real-world political economy, questions on what is a community in the first place
Week 6: Re-visit the 3 cases of week 3 in light of contrarian views of community and of participation. What we conclude on community participation and development practice.
Week 7: Causes of conflict and barriers to effective community development;
Week 8: Leadership styles, qualities and traits; Personality temperaments;
Week 9: Cross-cultural communication awareness; Active listening; Negotiation (approaches, strategies, steps, preparation, tactics to avoid);
Week 10: Overview of collaborative approaches for complex issues (dialogues, visioning, partnerships, collaborative problem solving, negotiations, mediations); How collaborative approaches work
Week 11: The Global Development Ecosystem;
Week 12: Designing Organizations for Development Action
Week 13: Team and Institutional Building within a Global Context;
Week 14: Managing Change in Dynamic Project Environments
READINGS
Weeks 1-6: Authors to be covered include Elinor Ostrom, Robert Wade, NS Jodha, Partha Dasgupta, Louise Fortmann, World Bank studies; Arturo Escobar, James Ferguson, Vandana Shiva; Cook & Kothari, David Mosse, Tania Murray Li, maybe Michael Goldman.
Week 7-10: Leading Change, Kotter, J. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 1996; The Change Handbook, The Definitive Resource on Today’s Best Methods for Engaging Whole Systems, Holman, P., Devane, T., Cady, S.,eds., San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 2007; Getting to Yes, Fisher, R. and Ury, W. Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin, l981.
Week 11-14: Ian Smillie (2009): Freedom from Want: The Remarkable Story of BRAC, the Global Grassroots Organization That’s Winning the Fight Against Poverty. Kumarian Press; Sebastian Mallaby (2004): The World’s Banker: A Story of Failed States. Financial Crises, and the Wealth and Poverty of Nations. The Penguin Press.
(Preface and Chapter 1, pp 1-40, and Chapter 14, pp 374-394, are especially relevant to Week One of the workshop.); Nancy Birdsall et al (2008): The White House and the World: A Global Development Agenda for the Next President. Center for Global Development. (Introduction, pp 1-42, and Chapter 10, pp 273-298, are especially relevant to Week One.); Owen Barder (2009): Markets, Networks and Planning for More Effective Aid; Center for U.S. Global Engagement (2009): Report on Reports – An Analysis of Over 20 Recent Reports on Revitalizing America’s Civilian Capacity in Foreign Affairs; Gordon Adams (2008): Getting Foreign Assistance Right. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists; Freed, R. (2003). Writing Winning Business Proposals. McGraw Hill; Hamper, R. and Baugh, S. (1995) Handbook for Writing Proposals. McGraw Hill
SYLLABUS
DevP 2XX:
Principles of Natural Resource Management
FA Semester 2011
Lecture: 2hrs/wk
Instructors: Vincent Resh, Claire Kremen, Lewis Feldman, Peggy Lemaux
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course will present a cross-disciplinary approach to environmental problem solving. It will involve theory, case histories, and model different scenarios. It will include several segments that will present diverse perspectives.
The first segment will introduce basic concepts like renewable and nonrenewable resources as well as sustainability, cover modeling and management of biological resources including the dynamics of population growth, harvesting and exploitation theory, methods to analyze population interactions with applications to fisheries, forests, pest, wildlife, and livestock management.
The second segment will address issues and principles of management of genetics resources, crop breeding, and biodiversity. In particular, it will introduce principles related to the application of modern genetics approaches to understanding and improving plants for sustainability and natural resource management will be presented. A rudimentary knowledge of the fundamental principals associated with such technologies, which are likely to become more pervasive in the future, is essential for an informed policymaker or a practitioner.
The third segment of the course will address principles for management of 1) water quality in the development context, restoring and protecting water resources, technology to enable or facilitate drinking water access and treatment, and sanitation; and 2) air quality in the development context, causes and consequences of air pollution in developing countries, technological opportunities for air pollution control.
The fourth segment will introduce the principles of conservation of biodiversity both through design, establishment and management of protected areas, and, using a more inclusive perspective that considers conserving biodiversity in the working lands around protected areas, through land uses that both support and benefit from ecosystem services provided by biodiversity. It would also utilize the concept of ecosystem services to inform lectures on the major uses of renewable natural resources and options for their sustainable use, including agriculture, forestry and fisheries.
The four segments will provide the foundation of scientific understanding that will be needed for individuals to develop more effective paths toward sustainable development in the 21st century. The course will emphasize choosing case studies that
involve social, economic and ecological components and ramifications. Participants will be expected to contact personnel involved in case studies and model different outcomes based on changes in input variables resulting from these contacts.
GRADING
Four exams, 25% each
COURSE OUTLINE
Week 1: Agricultural Resources
Week 2: The plant body: cell and tissue types
Week 3: Photosynthesis and water relations; outstanding and unique processes in plants
Week 4: Plant development; hormones, flowers, and reproduction
Week 5: Application of modern genetics to agriculture
Week 6: Use of molecular tools for breeding
Week 7: Soils
Week 8: Basics of climate change
Week 9: Water Resources
Week 10: Wildlife Resources
Week 11: Biodiversity and environmental services
Week 12: Conservation and Restoration of biodiversity
Week 13: Resource Sustainability
Week 14: Alternative Energy
READINGS:
Week 1: (Lal 2007; Price 2007; Conway et al 2005; Olsson et al 2004; Alteri 2002; Westermann et al 2005; Yang 2006)
Week 2: "Biology", 8th edition by Campbell, pages 738-‐59
Week 3: "Biology", 8th edition by Campbell, pages 185-‐205 and 764-‐784
Week 4: "Biology", 8th edition by Campbell, pages 757-‐776, 801-‐813, and 825-‐847
Weeks 5 and 6:
Ellstrand NC. 2006. Genetic Engineering and Pollen Flow, ANR publication 8182 -‐ PDF (Link in Fact Sheets section in Resources of ucbiotech.org)
Federoff N, Brown NM. 2004. "Mendel in the Kitchen: A Scientist's View of Genetically Modified Foods", National Academies Press (Can be downloaded at: http://cart.nap.edu/cart/cart.cgi?list=fs&action=buy%20it&record_id=11000&isbn=0-‐309-‐53186-‐1)
Lemaux PG. 2008. “Genetically Engineered Plants and Foods: A Scientist’s Analysis of the Issues (Part I)". Annual Review of Plant Biology 59: 771-‐812.(Downloadable in Biotechnology Information section of ucbiotech.org)
Lemaux PG. 2009. “Genetically Engineered Plants and Foods: A Scientist’s Analysis of the Issues (Part II)". Annual Review of Plant Biology 60: 511–59.(Downloadable in Biotechnology Information section of ucbiotech.org)
Ronald P, Fouche B. 2006. Genetic Engineering and Organic Production Systems, ANR publication 8188 (Link in Fact Sheets section in Resources Of ucbiotech.org)
Weeks 7 and 8:
To be determined
Week 9: (Chan et al 2006; Folke et al 2004; McPherson and DeStefano 2003 pgs. ix-125; Charles 2001 pgs. 9-21, 138-191)
Week 10: (Milner-Gulland 2003; Cooke and Cowx)
Week 11: What is Biodiversity, Law School reader (sorry don’t have this with me), Millenium Ecosystem Assessment, Biodiversity Chapter; Naylor, R., H. Steinfeid, W. Falcon, J. Galloways, V. Smil, E. Bradford, J. Alder, and H. Mooney. 2005. Losing the links between livestock and land. Science 310:1621-1622.
Week 12: Groom, M., J.,, G. Meffe, K.,, and C. R. Carroll 2006. Principles of Conservation Biology. Sinauer Associates, Inc., Sunderland, Massachusetts. Selected pages; Margules, C. R., and R. L. Pressey. 2000. Systematic conservation planning. Nature 405:243-253; Sunding, K. N., K. L. Gross, and G. R. Houseman. 2004. Alternative states and positive feedbacks in restoration ecology. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 19:46-53.; Murphree M. W. 2009. The strategic pillars of communal natural resource management: benefit, empowerment and conservation. Biodiversity and Conservation 18:2551-2562.
Week 13: Tilman, D., K. G. Cassman, P. A. Matson, R. Naylor, and S. Polasky. 2002. Agricultural sustainability and intensive production practices. Nature (London) 418:671-677; Pearson, C. J. 2007. Regenerative, semiclosed systems: A priority for twenty-first-century agriculture. Bioscience 57:409-418; Scherr and McNeely, Ecoagriculture, Proc Roy Society;
SYLLABUS
DevP 2XX
Quantitative Methods and Impact Evaluation
Fall Semester 2011
Lecture: 1.5 hrs twice/wk
Instructors: Maximilian Auffhammer, Elisabeth Sadoulet, Edward Miguel, Paul Gertler
COURSE DESCRIPTION
The first part of the course is designed to introduce students with minimal background in statistics to the basic concepts of estimation, prediction, and hypothesis testing. The second part of the course will focus on impact evaluation theory as well as methods and will explore the variety of tools available for rigorously measuring the impact of development programs on poverty. The curriculum will be applied, with weekly applied case studies drawn from the international sustainable development literature and case studies of field literature. Students will be exposed to issues related to research ethics and the protection of human subjects. At the conclusion each student will design an impact evaluation of a policy or intervention, assess the validity of the policy or intervention, make concrete suggestions for improving research design, and assess the validity of applied methods.
GRADING
Midterm (30%), Final (40%), Paper (30%)
COURSE OUTLINE
Week 1: Course Introduction
Week 2-3: Introduction and Fundamental Tools: Review of Basic Algebra, Social Science Questions and Data, Introduction to Probability Theory, Introduction to Statistics
Week 4-6: Regression Models: Linear Regression with One Regressor, Regression with a Single Regressor: Hypothesis Tests and Confidence Intervals, Linear Regression with Multiple Regressors, Hypothesis Tests and Confidence Intervals in Multiple Regression, Assessing Studies Based on Multiple Regression
Week 7: Advanced Topics: Regression with Panel Data, Instrumental Variables Regression, Experiments and Quasi-Experiments
Week 8: Introduction to Impact Evaluation in International Development
Week 9: Randomized Evaluation 1: Introduction, methodology, and the basic econometrics (Case Study: conditional cash trasnfers in Mexico); and Randomized
Evaluations II: Applications (Case Studies: housing vouchers in the US, microfinance in South Africa, and agriculture in Kenya)
Week 10: Randomized Evaluations III: Complications, Externalities (Case Study: deworming drugs in Kenya); and Research Ethics (Case Study: HIV prevention educational programs in Kenya)
Week 11: Regression Discontinuity (Case Studies: scholarship program for girls in Kenya, educational finance in Chile); and External Validity (Case Studies: anti-corruption programs in Indonesia and Brazil, & community-based monitoring of health clinics in Uganda)
Week 12: Matching, Propensity Score; and Data Quality, Logistics
Week 13: Differences in Differences (Case Studies: malaria eradication in the Americas and land reform in India); and Power Calculations
Week 14: Summary/Group Presentations
READINGS
Week 1-7:
MAIN TEXT:
James H. Stock and Mark W. Watson. 2011. Introduction to Econometrics, Third Edition. Prentice Hall. ISBN-10: 0138009007 ISBN-13: 9780138009007
ALTERNATE TEXT:
Jeffrey M. Wooldridge. 2002. Introductory Econometrics: A modern Approach. Second edition. South-Western College Publishers. ISBN-10: 0324113641 ISBN-13: 978-0324113648
Week 8:
Banerjee, Abhijit et. al. Making Aid Work. The MIT Press. 2007. Duflo, Esther. Scaling Up and Evaluation. Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics, 2004. Easterly, William. Can the West Save Africa? Journal of Economic Literature, 2009.
Week 9:
Duflo, Esther, Rachel Glennerster, and Michael Kremer. Using Randomization in Development Economics Research: A Toolkit. Poverty Action Lab White Paper, MIT.
Schultz, T. Paul. School Subsidies for the Poor: Evaluating the Mexican Progresa Poverty Program. Journal of Development Economics. June 2004, 199-250. *Fisman, Raymond and Edward Miguel. “Chapter 8.” In Economic Gangsters. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2008.
Kling, Jeffrey, Jeffrey Liebman, and Lawrence Katz. Experimental Analysis of Neighborhood Effects. Econometrica, January 2007, 83-119. *Karlan, Dean and Jonathan Zinman. Credit Elasticities in Less Developed Countries: Implications for Microfinance. American Economic Review, forthcoming. Duflo Esther, Michael Kremer and Robinson J. How high are rates of return to fertilizer? Evidence from field experiments in Kenya. American Economic Review, May 2008, 482-488.
Week 10:
Kremer, Michael and Edward Miguel. Worms: Identifying Impacts on Education and Health in the Presence of Treatment Externalities. Econometrica. January 2004, 159-217. *Kremer, Michael and Edward Miguel. The Illusion of Sustainability. Quarterly Journal of Economics. August 2007, 1007-1065.
Dupas, Pascaline. Relative Risks and the Market for Sex: Teenage Pregnancy, HIV, and Partner Selection in Kenya. Working paper.
Week 11:
Unpublished results from follow-up on a girl’s merit scholarship program. For a description of the intervention, see Kremer, Michael et al. Incentives to Learn. NBER Working Paper #10971. 2004. Chay, Ken et al. The Central Role of Noise in Evaluating Interventions that Use Test Scores to Rank Schools. American Economic Review. September 2005, 1237-1258.
Olken, Benjamin. Monitoring Corruption: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia. Journal of Political Economy. April 2007, 200-249. Ferraz, Claudio and Frederico Finan. Exposing Corrupt Politicians: The Effects of Brazil’s Publicly Released Audits on Electoral Outcomes. Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 2008, 703-745..
Bjorkman, Martina and Jakob Svensson. Power to the People: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment of a Community-Based Monitoring Project in Uganda. Community-Based Monitoring of Primary Health Care PCEPR Working Paper # 6344. June 2007.
Week 12:
Jalan, Jyotsna and Martin Ravallion. Does Piped Water Reduce Diarrhea for Children in Rural India? Journal of Econometrics. January 2003, 153-173. Jalan, Jyotsna and Martin Ravallion. Estimating the Benefit Incidence of an Antipoverty Program by Propensity Score Matching. Journal of Business and Economic Statistics. January 2003, 19-30.
Baird, Sarah, Joan Hamory, and Edward Miguel. Tracking, Attrition and Data Quality in the Kenya Life Panel Survey Round 1. Working paper.
Week 13:
Bleakley, Hoyt. Malaria Eradication in the Americas: A Retrospective Analysis of Childhood Exposure. Working paper. Besley, Timothy and Robin Burgess. Land Reform, Poverty Reduction, and Growth: Evidence from India. Quarterly Journal of Economics. May 2000, 389-430.
Data exercise based on the Kenya Rural Water Project. Excel sheet with calculations yet to be completed Excel sheet with calculations completed