ECON435/835: Slides used in Class

• 2SLS for Dummies     (Monday Jan. 10, 2011)
  

• Aggregation: A Brief Overview     (Wednesday Jan. 12, 2011)
  
• Accounting for Cross-Country Income Differences     (Monday Jan. 17, 2011)
  
• "Accounting for the Effect of Health on Economic Growth" by David Weil (2007)     (Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2011)
• Geography, History and Institutions (based on Hall and Jones, 1999 and Acemoglu, Johnson and Robinson, 2001)     (Monday Jan. 24, 2011)
• "Do Institutions Cause Growth?" by Glaeser, La Porta, Lopez-de-Silanes and Shleifer (2004)     (Wednesday, Jan. 26)
• Inequality and Development (based on Barro, 2001, Murphy, Shleifer and Vishny, 1989, and Lloyd-Ellis and Bernhardt, 2000)    (Monday Jan. 31, Wednesday Feb. 2 and Monday Feb. 7)

• Informal Credit Markets
  
• Agency Problems in Credit Markets (based on de Aghion and Morduch, ch. 2 and Ghosh, Mookherjee and Ray, 2000)   (Wednesday Feb. 9)
• Microfinance: Group Lending (based on de Aghion and Morduch, ch. 4)   (Monday Feb. 14)
• Group vs. Individual Liability: A Field Experiment in the Philippines by Gine and Karlan (2006)  (Wednesday Feb 16)
• Economic and Social Impacts (based on de Aghion and Morduch, ch. 6 and Coleman 1999)  (Monday Feb 28)
• "Policies and Impact: An Analysis of Village-Level Microfinance Institutions" by Kaboski and Townsend (2005)  (Wednesday March 2)
• Health
• "AIDS Crisis and Growth" by Corrigan, Glomm and Mendez (2005)  (Monday March 7)
• "Disease and Development" by Acemoglu and Johnson (2007)  (Wednesday March 9)