Development Economics

This document provides in depth notes for the health chapter of BEE3052 Development Economics. It explains all content and also key teachings from the papers studied on the reading list.

Intro to topic Social capital Microfinance Solving adverse selection Solving moral hazard Solving enforcement - Beasley-Coate Does Microfinance work? Joint liability Group lending Digital money M-Pesa

Main points: persistence of poverty Evidence of persistence of poverty Growth theory - poverty traps Kremer's complementarity model Behavioural Traps New technologies, increasing returns Status Quo bias

Types of corruption factors that facilitate corruption effects of corruption on growth and broader development political lending in Pakistan Summary statistics Reinikka and svensson 2004 schools and education in Uganda

Health and education - motivation - world development report 2004 - clinical interactions - remedying education - peer effects, teacher incentives and impact of tracking - mosquito/bed nets study Gender inequality - intro - education and health - employment - gender based violence - early marriage and violence in India - Power within marriage - freedom of choice - reasons for gender gap- empowerment leading to economic development - women as decision makers - policies - role of institutions and...

Intro to Health Early-life malaria exposure and adult outcomes Eradication of malaria in Sri Lanka and Paraguay - Lucas 2010 Deworming - Baird et al 2006

Credit in Nepal - Besley et al 2001 The theory Stylized facts Banerjee and Duflo Macro-level evidence of transaction costs Enforcement problems Moral Hazards Possible policies Rajan and Zingales 1998 Other issues with credit

Introduction to development economics Part 1 - the facts World bank development report Banerjee and Duflo 2007 (in great detail) Part 2- Determinism and History Institutions and Scope for action, Under the thumb of history? Banerjee and Duflo (2013) Economic determinism Cultural determinism No determinism Random events matter Acemoglu – Johnson – Robinson (2001, 2002) García – Jiménez – Robinson – Torvik McCloskey’s Ethics, Talk and Ideas