Empirical Methods in
Development Economics
Master 2 Development Economics
Coordinator:
Rémi Bazillier (remi.bazillier
[at] univ-paris1.fr)
Pedagogic Team:
Tomas Barsbai, Rémi Bazillier,
Catherine Bros, Lisa Chauvet, Thomas Vendryes
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Textbook: Soderbom &
Teal, Empirical Development Economics, Routledge Textbook Website (with datasets and do-files): http://www.empiricalde.com/ |
List of
Students’ presentation (please fill in the document)
Lecture 1: Introduction (Rémi Bazillier)
Robert Feenstra,
Robert Inklaar, Marcel Timmer,
“Recasting international income
differences: The next-generation Penn World Table”, voxeu,
sept. 2013.
Lecture 2: OLS and Panel in Development Economics
(Rémi Bazillier)
Benchmark paper #1: Cohen, D.
and M. Soto (2007), “Growth and Human Capital: good data, good results”, Journal of Economic Growth, 12:51-76. Students’
presentation
Benchmark paper #2: Schularick, M. and A.M. Taylor (2012), “Credit
Booms gone Bust: Monetary Policy, Leverage Cycle, and Financial Crises, 1870-2008”,
The American Economic Review, 102(2),
1029-1061.
Lecture 3: Instrumental
Variables (Rémi Bazillier)
Benchmark paper #3: Miguel,
Edward, Shanker Satyanath
and Ernest Sergenti (2004) “Economic shocks and civil conflict: an instrumental variables
approach”. Journal of Political
Economy 112(4): 725-753. Students’
presentation
Benchmark paper #4: Acemoglu, D., Gallego, F., &
Robinson, J. A. (2014). Institutions,
human capital and development, Annual
Review of Economics. 2014. 6:875-912 Students’
presentation
Lecture 4: Program Evaluation, PSM and RDD (Rémi
Bazillier)
Benchmark paper #5: Dehejia, Rajeev H. and Sadek Wahba. 1999. Causal
effects in nonexperimental studies: reevaluating the evaluation of training
programs. Journal of the American
Statistical Association 94(448): 1053-1062. Students’ presentation
Benchmark paper #6: Pettersson-Lidbom, Per. 2008. Do parties matter for economic outcomes? A
regression discontinuity approach. Journal
of the European Economic Association 6(5): 1037-1056. Students’ presentation
Lecture 5: Selection and Heckman Procedure (Rémi
Bazillier)
Benchmark paper #7: Zhu, Nong. 2002. The
impacts of income gaps on migration decisions in China. China Economic Review 13(2-3): 213-30. Students
presentation.
Lecture 6: Differences in difference and Randomized
Experiment (Rémi Bazillier)
Benchmark paper #8: Besley, T. J., & Burgess, R. (2002). Can labour regulation hinder economic performance? Evidence
from India, The Quarterly Journal of
Economics, 2004, vol. 119, no1, pp. 91-134. Students’
presentation.
Benchmark paper #9: Thornton,
Rebecca L. 2008. The demand for, and impact of,
learning HIV Status. American
Economic Review 98(5): 1829-43. Students’ presentation.
Lecture 7: Gravity and Migration (Rémi Bazillier)
Benchmark paper #10: Mayda, A. M. (2010): “International
migration: a panel data analysis of the determinants of bilateral flows,” Journal of Population Economics,23(4),1249–1274.
Students’ presentation.
Benchmark paper #11: Grogger, J., & Hanson, G. H. (2011). Income
maximization and the selection and sorting of international migrants. Journal of Development Economics, 95(1),
42-57. Students’
presentation.
Lecture 8: Poverty and Local Development (Catherine
Bros) – 8 Nov.
Benchmark paper #14: Salvatore Di Falco, Erwin Bulte
(2013), The
Impact of Kinship Networks on the Adoption of Risk-Mitigating Strategies in
Ethiopia, World Development, Volume
43, Pages 100-110. Students’
presentation.
Benchmark paper #15: Anderson, Siwan ,
Francois, Patrick, Kotwal, Ashok (2015) Clientelism in
Indian Villages, American Economic
Review, 105 (6) pp:1780-1816. Students
presentation.
Lecture 9: Foreign Aid (Lisa Chauvet)
– 15 Nov.
Benchmark paper #12: Brückner, M. (2013). On the simultaneity problem in the
aid and growth debate.
Journal of Applied Econometrics, 28(1), 126-150.
Benchmark paper #13: Rajan, R. G., & Subramanian, A. (2011). Aid, Dutch
disease, and manufacturing growth. Journal of Development Economics, 94(1),
106-118. Students’ presentation.
Lecture 10: Migration – Microeconomics (Toman Barsbaï) – 22 Nov.
Benchmark paper #16: Gibson, J., D. McKenzie and S. Stillman
(2010). How
Important is Selection? Experimental Vs Non-experimental Measures of the Income
Gains from Migration.
Journal of the European Economic
Association, 8(4): 913-45.
Benchmark paper #17: Clemens, M., and E. Tiongson
(forthcoming). Split Decisions: Household Finance
When a Policy Discontinuity Allocates Overseas Work. Review of Economics
and Statistics. Students’
presentation.
Lecture 11: Culture and Institutions (Toman Barsbaï) – 29 Nov.
Benchmark paper #18: Campante, F., and D. Yanagizawa-Drott
(2015). Does Religion Affect Economic Growth
and Happiness? Evidence from Ramadan. Quarterly
Journal of Economics,
130(2): 615-658.
Benchmark paper #19: Alesina, A., P. Giuliano, N. Nunn (2013). On the Origins of Gender Roles:
Women and the Plough.
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 128(2):
469-530.
Lecture 12: Institutions and Land Rights (Thomas
Vendryes) – 6 Dec.
Benchmark paper #20: Deininger, K., & Jin, S.
(2005). The potential of land rental markets in the process
of economic development: Evidence from China. Journal of Development Economics, 78(1), 241-270.
Benchmark paper #21: Jacoby,
H.G., Li, G. and Rozelle, S. (2002) "Hazards of expropriation: tenure insecurity and investment
in rural China". American
Economic Review 92(5): 1420–1447.