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Foundations of Development Policy
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MIT University 
Overview

Gain a comprehensive overview of Development Policy

Duration

11 weeks

Total fee

20,703

Mode of learning

Online

Course Level

UG Certificate

Foundations of Development Policy
 at 
MIT University 
Highlights

  • Earn a certificate after completion
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Foundations of Development Policy
 at 
MIT University 
Course details

Skills you will learn
What are the course deliverables?
  • What determines the decisions of poor households in developing countries?
  • What constraints are poor households subject to?
  • What is the scope for policy interventions (implemented by the government, international organizations, or NGOs)?
  • What policies have been tried out? Have they been successful?
  • How to build and apply economic models relevant to concrete development situations
  • How to design and conduct a randomized control trial to learn more about these questions
  • Data management and analysis using the software R
More about this course
  • In this course, we will study the different facets of human development in topics such as education, health, gender, the family, land relations, risk, informal and formal norms, public policy, and institutions
  • This is an ADVANCED elective course within the International Development Track of the MITx MicroMasters program in Data, Economics, and Design of Policy (DEDP), which provides a path toward the Master’s in DEDP at MIT

Foundations of Development Policy
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MIT University 
Curriculum

Week One: Introduction

Introduction I: Introduction to 14.740x

Introduction II: Poverty and undernutrition

Week Two: Nutrition and Productivity

Nutrition I: The capacity curve

Nutrition II: Elasticity of Nutrition

Reading Assignments

Week Three: Education

Education I: Benefits of Education

Education II: Schooling Decisions

Week Four: Gender

Gender I: Human subjects

Gender II: Household bargaining and gender

Week Five: Insurance

Insurance I: How the poor deal with risk

Insurance II: Mutual insurance in the village economy

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Foundations of Development Policy
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Esther Duflo
Esther Duflo is the winner of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. She is also the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics in the Department of Economics at MIT. She was educated at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, in Paris, and at MIT. She has received numerous honors and prizes including a John Bates Clark Medal for the best American economist under 40 in 2010, a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship in 2009. She was recognized as one of the best eight young economists by The Economist magazine, one of the 100 most influential thinkers by Foreign Policy since the list exists, and one of the “Forty under 40” most influential business leaders under forty by Fortune magazine in 2010.
Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee
Abhijit Banerjee is the winner of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. He was educated at the University of Calcutta, Jawaharlal Nehru University, and Harvard University. He is currently the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at MIT. Banerjee is a past president of the Bureau for Research in the Economic Analysis of Development, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Econometric Society, and has been a Guggenheim Fellow and an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow. He is the recipient of many awards, including the inaugural Infosys Prize in 2009, and has been an honorary advisor to many organizations including the World Bank and the government of India.

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