Course Description :
Theory and empirical evidence about growth and development in low-income countries. Topics include the measurement of poverty and inequality; the role of human capital in health and education, the internal structure of households, the role of social capital and institutions, how factor markets involving credit, labor, insurance and land functions. Growth models, and development economic policies.

Course Description :
Methods to policy analysis and impact evaluation. Econometric approaches to evaluate the causal effect of a social program, a policy, or any variable of interest. Introduction to a randomized controlled trail, and applications of behavioral and experimental economics in studying behaviors and outcomes of economic agents in response to a policy. Discussion various empirical studies in Development Economics such as education, health, labor, poverty, risk, and credit market, etc.

Course Description :
This course covers selected topics in industrial organization. Topics vary depending on the specific interests of the participants.

Course Description :
Game theory and its applications to economic issues. Market power. Adverse selection. Moral hazard. Intertemporal decision making. Analysis of general equilibrium with risk and uncertainty. Social choice theory. Further extensions of game theory. Bargaining. Mechanism design. Contract theory. Auction theory