Graduate Economic Development
AAE 730
After that we will move on to look at social interactions. We will begin with risk sharing agreements, both with and without commitment. We will continue on to social networks. We will study how networks are used to share risk, find jobs, and learn about new technologies. In terms of technology adoption, we will study both the more traditional literature on technology adoption and the newer literature which incorporates social networks.
From there we will move on to study education, institutions, and corruption. In the education section there will be a detour related to impact analysis. These sections will study both the macro cross-country literature on these topics, and the micro within-country literature on these topics. We will conclude with a section on psychology and experiments in development economics.