Materials for The Graduate Center's Spring 2016 Economics Development II PhD seminar.

Lecture and reading Notes as Jupyter Notebooks

This is a repository of jupyter notebooks on topics in the Microeconomics of Development. There are only a couple rough notebooks here now, but over time these should become more numerous and more polished. Some notebooks offer just simple analytic summaries of interesting topics or academic papers, while others provide code for simulations and visualizations of applied theory models to replicate and extend results. I hope to add a few replications of empirical papers as well. Topics are drawn from the fields of trade and growth, household economics, agrarian production structure and the equilibrium size distribution of firms, the political economy of property rights, institutions and policy reform, the theory of contracts and intermediation (in markets for land, labor and financial services), as well as papers on targeting, RCTs and program impact evaluation.

In its present form this is much less like a coherent sequential collection of lecture notes and more like an idiosyncratic collection of reading notes and materials that complement lecture notes by inviting you to explore and extend the embedded simulations and data analyses.

If you click you will launch a cloud-based juptyer notebook server that will allow you to run any of the notebooks interactively. Alternatively, clone this github and run them on your own computer.

The following table describes the contents of the notebooks folders and links to quick static views of the notebook content.

The course site dev-ii-seminar.readthedocs.org has the reading list and syllabus for the course and auto-generated styled HTML and PDF versions of all this content (but sometimes not all repo content converts).

Other Resources

A few other sites similar to this using jupyter notebooks and scientific python for economics: