Development II seminar Documentation

Development II seminar Documentation

Release 0.1 Jonathan Conning

Oct 04, 2018

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1 Development Microeconomics with Jupyter Notebooks

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1.1 Economics with Jupyter Notebooks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

1.2 Lucas (1990) "Why Doesn't Capital Flow from Rich to Poor Countries?" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

1.3 Edgeworth Box: Efficiency in production allocation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

1.4 The Specific Factors or Ricardo-Viner Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

1.5 Migration, urban-bias and the informal sector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

1.6 Coase, Property rights and the `Coase Theorem' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

1.7 Farm Household Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

1.8 Testing for Separation in Household models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

1.9 Equilibrium Size Distribution of Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

1.10 Causes and consequences of insecure Property Rights to land . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

1.11 Consumer Choice and Intertemporal Choice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

1.12 Quasi-hyperbolic discounting and commitment savings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

1.13 Notes on Incentive Contracts and Corruption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

1.14 Research Discontinuity Designs (in R) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

1.15 Data APIs and pandas operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

1.16 Stata and R in a jupyter notebook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

1.17 Jupyter running an R kernel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

1.18 Jupyter with a Stata Kernel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

1.19 Python and Stata combined in the same notebook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

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Development II seminar Documentation, Release 0.1

Lecture Notes and materials for The Graduate Center's Economics 842 taught by Jonathan Conning ? Reading list (links to weekly reading assignments and slides) ? Syllabus (course details and longer bibliography)

These reading and lecture notes on development microeconomics are written mostly as interactive jupyter notebooks which are kept at this github repository.

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