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Lecture notes for section IV are now available. Welcome to AEM 762! This course is held on Wednesdays and Fridays 10:10-11:45 in fall semester 2005 in Bradfield 110. My office hours this semester are Tuesdays 11:15-12:45 and Wednesdays 2:30-3:30. You are always welcome to email or phone to schedule an appointment or to drop by and take your chances on finding me available to talk. Some of you may encounter problems reading the lectures notes .pdf files if your machine does not have a full set of true type fonts installed. If you run into this problem, read the instructions on the lecture notes page. Cornell's Transnational Learning program is videotaping AEM 762 lectures this semester and making them available on a web site to registered users. Currently registered students can access these through the course lecture notes page. Please be advised that this course will NOT be offered again until fall 2007. I now offer it only every other year in fall semester. |
Course description: This course is designed for students with graduate level training in microeconomics and econometrics and an interest in international development. It focuses on the specification and estimation of models of individual, household, firm/farm, and market behavior. A wide range of topics are covered. The intent is to provide an in depth survey of the research frontiers in various key areas of the microeconomics of international development. Students from other fields are welcome and prior background will be taken into consideration in evaluating students' course papers. Students without appropriate prior training are welcome to audit the course without being responsible for any assignments.
My basic philosophy in this course is to assist the transition from student to scholar. I do not assign homework or exams and I do not expect anyone to read everything on the syllabus. Rather, the intent is to expose students to seminal bits of several interrelated literatures, to explain the mechanics of key theories and methods, to encourage students to think critically about what these literatures tell us about microeconomic behavior in the low-income world, and to help train them how to undertake original research of their own as well as to offer constructive criticism of others' research.
The course syllabus, lecture notes, and various papers are available in Adobe Acrobat .pdf
(portable document file) format.
Reserve readings are available online through the course reserve section of the
Cornell library web site.
(Just search under C.B. Barrett.)
Statement of Teaching Philosophy
Registered Students can also access copies of my lecture notes as they come available as well as .pdf versions of many of the readings from the syllabus (an alternative source to the library e-reserve) and video of the lectures this semester (the latter care of Cornell's Transnational Learning program).
Course referee reports
The single best WWW source for economics information and data is:
Resources for Economists on the Internet
Other good sources for development in particular include:
AgEcon Search
Bureau for Research in
Economic Analysis and Development
Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research
DEVLINE
Directory of Development Economists
ECONBASE from Elsevier
Economics Journals on the Internet
Economists with Interests in Applied Microeconomics and Development
Eldis
Elsevier Handbooks of Economics series
Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development at the World Bank
Food and Agriculture Organization
ID21, a UK-based development research site
IDEAS, economics working papers archive
Inter-American Development Bank
International Food Policy Research Institute (includes access to IFPRI data sets)
International Fund for Agricultural Development
International Labour Organisation
International Monetary Fund
Living Standards Measurement Study - World Bank Household Survey data
National Agricultural Library
National Bureau of Economic Research
Overseas Development Institute
PovertyNet from the World Bank
UNICEF (United Nations Children's Fund)
United Nations Development Programme
U.S. Agency for International Development
Virtual Library on Microcredit
World Bank
World Bank journals
World Food Programme
World Health Organisation
World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER)
Last Revised: November 27, 2005