Dev II - Development Seminar

Fall 2024 students

• Syllabus

Class Slides and related notebooks:

• Week 1: Introduction

  • class slides
  • Lucas1990

• Week 2: Income and Productivity Gaps

  • class slides
  • Vollrath2009
  • Edgeworth Box

• Week 3: Structural Transformation

  • class slides
  • Student slides:
    • Galor et al
    • Herrendor et al
  • Specific Factors
  • Structural Transformation Notes
  • Harris Todaro Migration

• Week 4: Institutions, Political Economy, and Persistence

  • class slides
  • Noptes on Coase
  • geospatial analysis
  • RD designs

Jupyter Notebooks for Development Economics.

• github repository: github.com/jhconning/DevII
• rendered website: jhconning.github.io/DevII/

These materials support the PhD Econ 842: Development Seminar II at The Graduate Center at The City University of New York, but some of the jupyter notebooks may be of more general interest.

Jupyter notebooks mix markdown text, math, and executable code (in python, R, and stata) to produce output and visualizations. Many notebooks can be run interactively by clicking the rocket button at the top of each relevant page. This will launch the notebook in the cloud on a jupyter kernel server (Google Colab or Binder). Alternatively, download the notebook, or clone the entire DevII repository, to your local machine and run it there. Guides to getting started with jupyter, github, and python in the Tools section.

Jupyter Notebook Contents