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- Code:
- 31E15000
- Field:
- Development Economics
- Targets:
- Master’s students Research Master's students PhD students
- Organiser:
- Aalto University
- Instructor:
- Miri Stryjan
- Period:
- Period 1
- Format:
- Participation in teaching
- Method:
- Contact teaching
- Venue:
- Otaniemi campus
- Enrollment:
In case of conflicting information consider the Sisu/MyCourses pages the primary source of information.
Aalto, Hanken and UH economics students can enroll through their home university’s SISU. Further instructions are available on the How to enroll? page, also for students from other universities.
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Content
The course will consist of classroom lectures and exercise sessions. It is given in collaboration with UNU-WIDER who delivers at least two guest lectures. The course will cover topics such as:
- Growth theories and growth accounting
- Institutions and misallocation
- The livelihoods of the poor in developing countries:
- The role of agriculture
- Labor markets in developing countries
- Health investments in developing countries
- Technology adoption (with applications to specific policy areas)
- Methods and measurement:
- Definition and measures of poverty
- Common empirical methods for causal inference in economics
- Additional guest lecture topics will be chosen annually by UNU-WIDER
Learning outcomes
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
- Demonstrate comprehensive knowledge of development economics, including its central concepts.
- Identify and explain key topics in policy and research within the field of development economics.
- Apply common statistical methods used in the empirical study of development economics, focusing on causal inference.
- Define poverty using established economic frameworks.
- Demonstrate knowledge of and critically compare economic theories that explain variations in growth and income levels between wealthy and poor countries.
- Access and engage with contemporary academic literature and research in development economics, understanding where to locate such resources.