Teaching Material

For links to syllabi, slides, etc, go back to the teaching link and click on “Courses and Slides.” If you use any of this material in your teaching, slides, etc., you must provide explicit acknowledgment and a link to my webpage.

UNDERGRADUATE DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS:

If you are an instructor and looking for answers to problem sets in my book, Development Economics, email me with your request and some evidence that you are an affiliated instructor at an institution, such as a faculty list or webpage. That list should contain your official email address, and you should email me from that address. Thanks, and apologies for the red tape.

A Discussion of the Gini Coefficient, with contributions by Sam Bowles and Wendy Carlin, Rajiv Sethi, S. Subramanian, and me. Update: John Creedy and S. Subramanian are editing a special issue in the Journal of Income Distribution in honor of Peter Lambert, where these assembled notes appear as a joint paper.

GRADUATE DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS:

Graduate Development Notes. Updates 2001, 2002, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2013. These notes are preliminary and incomplete and are to be used at your own risk.

Uneven Growth: A Framework for Research in Development Economics, Journal of Economic Perspectives 24 (3), Summer, 45-60, 2010.

Introduction to A Reader in Development Economics, edited by Dilip Mookherjee and Debraj Ray, Blackwell (2000).

ASPIRATIONS:

Slides for Aspirations: The Roots of Inspiration and Frustration, Lecture 1 at the Summer School of the Econometric Society, Keio University, Tokyo, 2023.

UPWARD MOBILITY:

Slides for Measuring Upward Mobility, Lecture 2 at the Summer School of the Econometric Society, Keio University, Tokyo, 2023.

CONFLICT:

Conflict and Development, (with Joan Esteban) Annual Reviews of Economics  9, 263-293, 2017.

( See also videos under “Links.”)

GAME THEORY:

Game Theory at NYU (2006)

Undergraduate Game Theory at the LSE (2005)

Coalitions  at the LSE (2005)

Dynamic Programming and Games at BU (1995).