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040138 KU Field Experiments: Fighting Poverty (2021W)

8.00 ECTS (4.00 SWS), SPL 4 - Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung
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Details

max. 50 Teilnehmer*innen
Sprache: Englisch

Lehrende

Termine

Please note that the lectures will be given online and asynchronous. Two lectures are uploaded each Thursday.

Information

Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung

This course explores the most important issues of poverty using experimental tools such as randomized control trials. The following questions are answered through lectures, readings, and discussions:

-What is poverty?
-How is poverty measured?
-Why poverty persists?
-Can the poor afford a minimum caloric intake?
-Is the health system helping the poor?
-How do we make schools work for poor citizens?
-How do the poor save and invest?
-Why are poor families often numerous?
-Is micro-finance useful to eradicate poverty?
-Why do the poor make seemingly suboptimal decisions?

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

-Assignments (30%)
-Midterm (30%)
-Final exam (40%)

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

Basic microeconomics
Basic econometrics

Prüfungsstoff

Module 1:
-Definition of poverty
-Measurement of poverty
-A general theory of poverty traps
-The methodology of randomized control trials
-Critiques to randomized control trials

Module 2:
-Nutrition-based poverty traps
-The role of human capital in persistent poverty
-The household model of the poor
-Credit constraints as a source of poverty traps

Module 3:
-Poverty traps from lack of self-control
-Poverty and aspirations failure
-Cognitive load under poverty
-Self-fulfilling prophecies

Literatur

Ravallion, Martin (2016). Economics of poverty: History, measurement and policy. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780190212766.

Banerjee, Abhijit, and Esther Duflo. Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty. PublicAffairs, 2011. ISBN: 9781586487980.

Plus selected papers

Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis

Letzte Änderung: Do 07.10.2021 09:48