Master of Development Practice Course: Economic Development and Policy

Syllabus

Course that can be jointly listed with PP C253/ARE C253 3 units (2 hrs + TA)

1. Course objectives This is a Master’s level course in international economic development policy and practice. It has the following objectives: • Help students learn apply the tools of economic analysis to problems of growth,

poverty, and environmental sustainability in developing countries. • Help students understand: (1) why some poor countries have been successful in

catching up with the industrialized countries in per capita income, while others are increasingly lagging behind, (2) why half of humanity remains poor, and (3) why environmental degradation and resource exhaustion are commonly associated with income growth, and what are the implications of degradation and exhaustion on growth and poverty.

• Help students understand what can be done to promote development through policies and investment projects, and learn to analyze the economic, social, and environmental impacts of specific initiatives.

• Teach students to use data to conduct development analyses such as growth diagnostics, poverty assessments, impact analysis of development projects, and environmental impact assessments. Learn to prepare the corresponding reports for international development agencies and policy makers.

2. Course requirements Pre-requisites: Microeconomics and econometrics at the undergraduate upper-division or Master’s

level. Knowledge of Stata or an equivalent statistical package. Requirements to pass the class Two extensive quantitative case studies: to be developed by teams of two Three policy briefs prepared individually Final examination: closed books Contributions to the course grade 1. Two quantitative case studies: 2x20 = 40% of grade 2. Three policy notes: 3x5 = 15% of grade 3. Final examination: 45% of grade 3. Chronological schedule of topics Each topic will correspond to a week of the course

1. Policy issues in development 2. Poverty assessment: methods 3. Poverty assessment: policies and programs 4. Inequality and vulnerability assessment 5. Human development and social protection programs 6. Targeting of social programs 7. Microfinance institutions 8. Impact analysis of development projects: methods 9. Impact analysis of development projects: cases 10. Development strategies and macro-policies 11. Agriculture for development 12. Environment and development policy 13. Policy debate on foreign aid 14. Crises and policy responses 15. Review. The development profession 4. A list of required readings The textbook for the class is: Alain de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet. 2010. International Economic Development and Policy. Accessible to students with class password. Course materials are posted on the class homepage at: http://are.berkeley.edu/courses/ARE253/fall2009/index.html Readings: - Overview:

Word Bank-IMF, Global Monitoring Report 2009. Overview http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTDEC/EXTGLOBALMONITOR/EXTGLOMONREP2009/0,,contentMDK:22149019~pagePK:64168445~piPK:64168309~theSitePK:5924405,00.html See in particular progress on the MDG on that page Inspect the World Bank homepage for information www.worldbank.org

- Poverty Assessments Poverty and inequality course-WB http://econ.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTDEC/EXTRESEARCH/EXTPROGRAMS/EXTPOVRES/0,,contentMDK:21612674~pagePK:64168182~piPK:64168060~theSitePK:477894,00.html Look at the World Bank’s Guidance on Poverty Assessments, and in particular the Guidance Note on Poverty Assessment found at: http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/TOPICS/EXTPOVERTY/EXTPA/0,,contentMDK:20202212~isCURL:Y~menuPK:435735~pagePK:148956~piPK:216618~theSitePK:430367,00.html

- Poverty Ravallion, M., and S. Chen. 2007. "China's (uneven) progress against poverty." Journal of Development Economics 82(1): 1-42. link

- Inequality and Inequity World Bank, Growth and Inequality http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/TOPICS/EXTPOVERTY/EXTPGI/0,,contentMDK:20263391~menuPK:577810~pagePK:148956~piPK:216618~theSitePK:342771,00.html

- Social programs and the art of targeting David Coady, Margaret E. Grosh, John Hoddinott. 2004. Targeting of Transfers in Developing Countries. The World Bank. Read chapter 4 http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=l3ppSymUipQC&dq=targeting+transfers+developing+countries+coady&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=ils6E7d_9d&sig=wuRU0ov_z2xS3AZM36Q8atKyUlc&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result#PPA81,M1

- Cash transfer policies Ariel Fiszbein and Norbert Schady. 2009. Conditional Cash Transfers: Reducing present and future poverty. The World Bank Read: Overview, pp. 1-27 http://books.google.com/books?id=aunlBU_2FsYC&pg=PA103&lpg=PA103&dq=onditional+cash+transfer+overview+schady&source=bl&ots=_08Hq4HT3K&sig=fO_5Pw4w4uigscIReGaekfCZygI&hl=en&ei=NITFSo6zIovisQO02K2iBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3#v=onepage&q=&f=false

- Impact analysis of development projects. Ravallion, M. "The mystery of the vanishing benefits: An introduction to impact evaluation." World Bank Economic Review , Sep, 2001, V15(N1):115-140. http://wber.oxfordjournals.org/content/vol15/issue1/index.dtl Kim, J., H. Alderman, and P. Orazem. 1999." Can Private School Subsidies Increase Enrollment for the Poor? The Quetta Urban Fellowship Program. The World Bank Economic Review, Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 443-65 http://wber.oxfordjournals.org/content/vol13/issue3/index.dtl

- Development strategies and macro policies Chapter 12. International Finance and Development: Exchange Rates and Foreign Capital Flows Download The Economist, October 22, 2009. Special Report on China: Round and round it goes Download

- Microfinance institutions Beatriz Armendáriz de Aghion and Jonathan Morduch. 2004. “Microfinance: Where do we Stand?” Attached Look at the home pages of the following three internet microfinance lenders: http://www.kiva.org/ https://www.myc4.com http://www.prosper.com How do they each work? What are their relative advantages and inconvenient?

- Development and the Environment - A bad climate for development, The Economist, Sep 17th 2009, Attached - Last gasp for the forest, The Economist, Sep 24th 2009, Attached - The price of cleanliness, , The Economist, Oct 22nd 2009, Attached

- Common Property Resources and Cooperation

- Chapter 9: Common Property Resources and Cooperation, Attached - A rising tide, The Economist, Sep 18, 2008, Attached - Common Sense, The Economist, July 31, 2008, Attached

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Public Health 2_XX_ / DevP 2_XX__ Foundations of Public Health Spring 2011 Professor Arthur L. Reingold Professor Kirk R. Smith Weekly 2 hr. Seminar Day & Time TBD Location TBD Course Description

Good health at the individual and community level is essential to the development of countries and regions. Good health, which is not simply the absence of illness and injury, is the result of the complex interplay of many factors, including the legal, social, political, and physical environments, economic forces, food availability and nutrition, access to safe water and sanitation, cultural beliefs and human behaviors, religion, and the availability of affordable preventive measures such as vaccines and of curative services, among others. This course is open to graduate students at U.C. Berkeley enrolled in the new multidisciplinary Masters in Development Practice program and has no prerequisites. Students will be expected to read, understand, and use sometimes advanced materials from diverse disciplines. The class will meet once a week for lectures and case-based discussions.

Course Requirements

Class Attendance and Readings: Students are expected to attend classes regularly and to complete weekly reading assignments. The lectures will cover the readings but will also supplement them with additional material. Doing well on the paper assignments and take-home final examination will depend on diligently attending lectures and doing the weekly readings. The course readings will be available on the course website on Bspace. Research Paper: Each student is expected to write two short papers. The papers will require library research as well as the formulation of an analytical argument. Examination: There will be a take-home final examination. The examination will have essay-style questions, and will require not only knowledge of the course material but also the capacity to analyze various paradigms and perspectives. Grading Structure: Papers (8 – 10 page research paper each): 30% x 2 = 60% Final Exam: 30% Participation (attendance, weekly responses, participation): 10%

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Resources Course Instructors: Professors Reingold and Smith will be available by appointment. You can email them at reingold@berkeley.edu and krksmith@berkeley.edu.

Organization of Course and Topics

Week 1: “Who Dies of What and Why?” Speaker – Arthur Reingold, Professor of Epidemiology, UCB

Week 2: “Global Burden of Disease and its Major Causes” Speaker – Kirk Smith, Professor of Global Environmental Health, UCB

• Lopez AD, Mathers CD, Ezzati M, Jamison DT, Murray CJ. Global and regional burden of disease and risk factors, 2001: systematic analysis of population health data. Lancet. 2006 May 27;367(9524):1747-57.

• Smith KR and Ezzati M. How Environmental Health Risks Change with Development: The epidemiologic and environmental risk transition revisited. Annu. Rev. Environ. Resour. 2005; 30:291-333.

Week 3: “An International Perspective on Poverty, Inequality & Health: What Can Be Done About It?” Speaker – Arthur Reingold

• Commission on the Social Determinants of Health of the World Health Organization. Closing the gap in a generation: health equity through action on the social determinants of health : final report of the commission on social determinants of health. Geneva: WHO. 2009.

Week 4: “Improving the Lives of Slum Dwellers: Lessons from Nairobi.” Guest Speaker – Jason Corburn, Associate Professor of City & Regional Planning, UCB

• Mercado S, Havemann K, Sami M, Ueda H. Urban poverty: an urgent public health issue. J Urban Health. 2007 May;84(3 Suppl):i7-15.

• Unger A, Riley LW. Slum health: from understanding to action. PLoS Med. 2007 Oct;4(10):1561-6. Review.

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Week 5: “Malnutrition, Health and Development: Causes & Interventions” Guest speaker: Lia Fernald, Associate Professor, Public Health Nutrition, Community Health & Human

Development, UCB

• Fernald LC, Gertler PJ, Neufeld LM. 10-year effect of Oportunidades, Mexico's conditional cash transfer programme, on child growth, cognition, language, and behaviour: a longitudinal follow-up study. Lancet. 2009 Dec 12;374(9706):1997-2005.

• Grantham-McGregor S, Cheung YB, Cueto S, Glewwe P, Richter L, Strupp B; International Child Development Steering Group. Developmental potential in the first 5 years for children in developing countries. Lancet. 2007 Jan 6;369(9555):60-70.

• Walker SP, Wachs TD, Gardner JM, Lozoff B, Wasserman GA, Pollitt E, Carter JA; International Child Development Steering Group. Child development: risk factors for adverse outcomes in developing countries. Lancet. 2007 Jan13;369(9556):145-57. Review.

• Engle PL, Black MM, Behrman JR, Cabral de Mello M, Gertler PJ, Kapiriri L, Martorell R, Young ME; International Child Development Steering Group. Strategies to avoid the loss of developmental potential in more than 200 million children in the developing world. Lancet. 2007 Jan 20;369(9557):229-42. Review.

• Black RE, Allen LH, Bhutta ZA, Caulfield LE, de Onis M, Ezzati M, Mathers C, Rivera J; Maternal and Child Undernutrition Study Group. Maternal and child undernutrition: global and regional exposures and health consequences. Lancet. 2008 Jan 19;371(9608):243-60. Review. PubMed PMID: 18207566.

• Victora CG, Adair L, Fall C, Hallal PC, Martorell R, Richter L, Sachdev HS; Maternal and Child Undernutrition Study Group. Maternal and child undernutrition: consequences for adult health and human capital. Lancet. 2008 Jan 26;371(9609):340-57. Review. Erratum in: Lancet. 2008 Jan 26;371(9609):302. PubMed PMID: 18206223; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2258311.

• Bhutta ZA, Ahmed T, Black RE, Cousens S, Dewey K, Giugliani E, Haider BA, Kirkwood B, Morris SS, Sachdev HP, Shekar M; Maternal and Child Undernutrition Study Group. What works? Interventions for maternal and child undernutrition and survival. Lancet. 2008 Feb 2;371(9610):417-40. Review. PubMed PMID: 18206226.

Week 6: “The Ethics of Public Health Research and Intervention” Speaker – Arthur Reingold

• Benatar SR, Daar AS, Singer PA. Global health challenges: the need for an expanded discourse on bioethics. PLoS Med. 2005 Jul;2(7):e143. Epub 2005 Jul 26.

• Kass NE. An ethics framework for public health. Am J Public Health. 2001 Nov;91(11):1776-82. • Pinto AD, Upshur RE. Global health ethics for students. Dev World Bioeth. 2009 Apr;9(1):1-10. • Dickens, BM. Editor’s Choice: The Challenges and Opportunities of Ethics. Am J Public Health.

2005 July; 95(7):1094.

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Week 7: “Fertility and Population” Guest Speaker – Malcolm Potts, Bixby chair in Population and Family Planning, UCB

• Campbell M, Sahin-Hodoglugil NN, Potts M. Barriers to fertility regulation: a review of the literature. Stud Fam Plann. 2006 Jun;37(2):87-98. Review.

• Basu AM. Why does Education Lead to Lower Fertility? A Critical Review of Some of the Possibilities. World Development, 2002;30(10):1779-1790.

Week 8: “Gender Relations and the HIV/AIDS Epidemic: Global Prevention Efforts” Guest Speaker – Shari Dworkin, Associate Professor, Dept. of Social & Behavioral Sciences, UCSF

• Lyles CM, Kay LS, Crepaz N, Herbst JH, Passin WF, Kim AS, Rama SM, Thadiparthi S, DeLuca JB, Mullins MM; HIV/AIDS Prevention Research Synthesis Team. Best-evidence interventions: findings from a systematic review of HIV behavioral interventions for US populations at high risk, 2000-2004. Am J Public Health. 2007 Jan;97(1):133-43. Epub 2006 Nov 30. Review.

• Pronyk PM, Hargreaves JR, Kim JC, Morison LA, Phetla G, Watts C, Busza J, Porter JD. Effect of a structural intervention for the prevention of intimate-partner violence and HIV in rural South Africa: a cluster randomized trial. Lancet. 2006 Dec 2;368(9551):1973-83.

• Higgins JA, Hoffman S, Dworkin SL. Rethinking gender, heterosexual men, and women's vulnerability to HIV/AIDS. Am J Public Health. 2010 Mar;100(3):435-45. Epub 2010 Jan 14. Review.

Week 9: “The Unnecessary Tragedy of Maternal Mortality” Guest Speaker – Suellen Miller, Associate Professor, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology &

Reproductive Sciences, UCSF and Director, Safe Motherhood Programs, Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health, UCSF

• Shiffman J, Smith S. Generation of political priority for global health initiatives: a framework and case study of maternal mortality. Lancet. 2007 Oct 13;370(9595):1370-9. Review.

• Maine D. Detours and shortcuts on the road to maternal mortality reduction. Lancet. 2007 Oct 13;370(9595):1380-2.

• IRIN. “Free care for expectant mothers – is it enough?” March 2 2010.

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Week 10: “Movies as an Infectious Agent Spreading Tobacco-induced Heart Disease and Cancer” Guest Speaker – Stan Glantz, Professor, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine,

School of Medicine, UCSF

• Charlesworth A, Glantz SA. Smoking in the movies increases adolescent smoking: a review. Pediatrics. 2005 Dec;116(6):1516-28. Review.

• Scott AO, “This Article Is Not Yet Rated.” New York Times. January 22, 2010. Available at http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/24/movies/24scott.html?th&emc=th

• Polansky JR, Glantz SA. Taxpayer Subsidies for US Films with Tobacco Imagery. UC San Francisco: Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education. Retrieved from:

• http://escholarship.org/uc/item/8nc8422j • Smoke Free Movies. http://www.smokefreemovies.ucsf.edu/ • World Health Organization. Smoke-Free Movies: From Evidence to Action. Available from

https://bspace.berkeley.edu/access/content/group/370c2bfb-8057-4384-b996-2916fb9ee566/Readings/Week%20of%20Mar%208/Glantz/WHO%20smoke%20free%20movies%202009.pdf

Week 11: “Challenges in Water and Sanitation” Guest Speakers – Jack Colford, Professor of Epidemiology, UCB

& Kara Nelson, Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UCB

• Mäusezahl D, Christen A, Pacheco GD, Tellez FA, Iriarte M, Zapata ME, Cevallos M, Hattendorf J, Cattaneo MD, Arnold B, Smith TA, Colford JM Jr. Solar drinking water disinfection (SODIS) to reduce childhood diarrhoea in rural Bolivia: a cluster-randomized, controlled trial. PLoS Med. 2009 Aug;6(8):e1000125. Epub 2009 Aug 18.

• Fewtrell L, Kaufmann RB, Kay D, Enanoria W, Haller L, Colford JM Jr. Water, sanitation, and hygiene interventions to reduce diarrhoea in less developed countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Lancet Infect Dis. 2005 Jan;5(1):42-52. Review.

• UNICEF and WHO. “Water for Life: Making it Happen.” Geneva: WHO. 2005.

Week 12: “Financing Health in LDCs: Innovation and Change” Guest Speaker - Sir Richard Feachem, Professor of Global Health, UCSF Global Health Sciences

• Ravishankar N, Gubbins P, Cooley RJ, Leach-Kemon K, Michaud CM, Jamison DT, Murray CJ. Financing of global health: tracking development assistance for health from 1990 to 2007. Lancet. 2009 Jun 20;373(9681):2113-24. Erratum in: Lancet. 2009 Nov 21-2009 Nov 27;374(9703):1744.

• The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. http://www.theglobalfund.org/en/ • The RED Campaign. http://www.joinred.com/#home

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Week 13: “Climate Change and Health: Multiple Interactions” Guest Speaker – Kirk Smith, Professor of Global Environmental Health, UCB

• Smith K and Balakrishnan K. Mitigating climate, meeting MDGs, and moderating chronic disease: the health co-benefits landscape. In Commonwealth Ministers’ Update 2009.

• St Louis ME, Hess JJ. Climate change: impacts on and implications for global health. Am J Prev Med. 2008 Nov;35(5):527-38. Review.

Week 14: “Disease Eradication After Smallpox” Speaker – Arthur Reingold

• Caplan, AL. Is disease eradication ethical? In Lancet. 2009 Oct 3;374(9696):1144.

Week 15: “The Real Burden of Malaria in African Children” Guest Speaker – Grant Dorsey, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, UCSF

• Greenwood BM, Bojang K, Whitty CJ, Targett GA. Malaria. Lancet. 2005 Apr 23-29;365(9469):1487-98. Review.

SYLLABUS  

DevP  2xx  

Climate  Change  and  Energy  

FA  2012  

Instructors:  Dennis  Baldocchi,  William  Nazaroff,  Christian  Traeger,  Robert  Rhew,  John  Chiang,  David  Roland-­‐Holst,  Daniel  Kammen,  Anthony  Fisher,    

3  hrs  LEC/wk  

COURSE  DESCRIPTION  

Energy  is  one  of  the  fastest  evolving  areas  of  analysis,  and  the  primary  driver  of  anthropogenic  climate  change.  In  addition  to  providing  a  background  in  the  basic  science,  engineering,  economics  and  public  policy  aspects  of  energy  technologies,  this  course  will  also  provide  a  number  of  methodological  approaches  "the  tool  box"  to  the  analysis  of  energy  choices  and  impacts.  This  course  will  also  explore  the  ways  that  energy  systems  differentially  empower,  impact,  and  constrain  economic  development,  equity,  and  environmental  management  in  a  range  of  communities,  regions,  and  nations.    

An  overview  segment  will  address  the  conceptual  science  of  climate  change:  greenhouse  gases,  earth-­‐atmosphere  energy  flows,  weather  and  climate,  carbon  transition  pathways,  paleoclimate  and  future  climate,  climate-­‐change  consequences;  Energy  technologies  for  development:  fossil  fuels,  biofuels,  micro  hydroelectric,  solar  photovoltaics,  solar  thermal;  Energy  end  use  for  development:  lighting,  cooking,  temperature  control,  transportation.  

Another  segment  of  the  course  will  review  energy  management  concepts  including  tools  of  environmental  and  economic  life-­‐cycle  assessment  (LCA),  centralized  and  decentralized  energy  generation,  energy  efficiency,  energy-­‐water  and  energy-­‐biodiversity  interactions,  and  energy  management  and  policy  across  scales.  

The  third  segment  will  address  the  political  economy  of  energy  and  climate  change  with  a  focus  on  global  and  national  strategies,  and  integrating  the  divergent  interests  of  corporations,  non-­‐governmental  organizations,  elites  and  community  groups,  households,  and  women.    

Finally,  the  course  will  draw  on  the  tools  of  economics  and  finance  to  introduce  business  and  public  policy  issues  that  these  changes  have  raised  in  energy  markets,  and  in  the  environmental  markets  to  which  they  are  closely  tied.  Possible  topics  include  the  development  and  effect  of  organized  spot,  futures,  and  derivative  markets  in  energy  commodities  and  pollution  permits;  the  political  economy  of  deregulation;  the  environmental  impacts  and  policies  related  to  energy  production  and  use;  market  power  and  antitrust  in  energy  and  environmental  markets;  and  the  

transportation  and  storage  of  energy  commodities.  We  examine  the  economic  determinants  of  industry  structure  and  evolution  of  competition  among  firms  in  these  industries;  investigate  successful  and  unsuccessful  strategies  for  entering  new  markets  and  competing  in  existing  markets;  and  analyze  the  rationale  for  and  effects  of  public  policies  in  energy  markets  and  environmental  markets.  

 

GRADING  

Midterm  (30%),  Final  (30%),  Paper  (40%)  

 

COURSE  OUTLINE  

The  Science  of  Climate  Change  

Week  1:       Introduction:  what  is  climate  change?  

  The  Greenhouse  effect    

Week  2:  

  Greenhouse  gases  and  radiative  forcing  

  Carbon  cycle    

Week  3:  

  Earth’s  climate  today  

  Climate  models  

Week  4:  

  Past  Climate  Change  

Detection  and  Attribution  of  20th  century  climate  change  

Week  5:    

  Climate  Change  Projections  and  Impacts  

Mitigation  and  Adaptation  

 

Technology:  

Week  6:  

  Energy  from  Fossil  Fuels  

Week  7:  

Conservation  and  Alternative  Energy    

Week  8:  

Biofuels  and  Renewables    

Week  9:    

Carbon  Sequestration  and  Climate  Technologies      

 

Economics  and  Policy  

Week  10:    

The  Global  Energy  Situation  and  Integrated  Assessment  of  Climate  Change        

Week  11:    

Sectoral  Economic  Impacts  –  Energy,  Agriculture  and  Extreme  Heat  Events  

Global  Economic  Impacts  –  Rolling  the  DICE  

Week  12:      

Modeling  Climate  Change  and  Policies  –  Issues  of  Discounting  and  Uncertainty    

Week  13:    

Policy  Instruments:  Standards,  Taxes,  Cap  and  Trade,  Life  Cycle  Based  Policies  

Week  14:    

International  Environmental  Agreements  

 

 

READINGS:  

 

Week  1:      

Selected  chapters  from  Weart,  The  discovery  of  global  warming.    Harvard  Press,  2008  

Kump,  Kasting  &  Crane,  The  Earth  System.  Pearson  Prentice  Hall.  2004,  pp34-­‐43  

Week  2:  

Kump  Kasting  &  Crane,  pp44-­‐53.  (second  half  of  chapter  3)  

Gautier,  C.    Oil,  Water,  and  Climate:  an  introduction.    Cambridge  Press,  2008.  Ch4  (pp59-­‐80):  carbon  cycle  and  the  human  impact  

Week  3:  

Chapter  2  of  Ruddiman,  Earth’s  Climate:  Past  and  Future.  Freeman  2001.  

Schmidt:  The  physics  of  climate  modeling.    Physics  Today,  v60,  p72-­‐73  (2007)  

Week  4:  

Alley,  R.  2004.  “Abrupt  Climate  Change.”  Scientific  American,  November:  62-­‐69.  

Spencer  Weart  –  Essay  on  ice  ages  titled  “Past  Cycles:  Ice  Age  Speculations”  

National  Research  Council.  2001.  “Climate  Change  Science:  An  Analysis  of  Some  Key  Questions.”  Washington,  DC:  National  Academy  Press.    

 Intergovernmental  Panel  on  Climate  Change  2007.  Working  Group  1:  Summary  for  Policymakers”.    pp2-­‐12    

 Week  5:    

Kump,  Kastings  and  Crane  pp  324-­‐334  (part  of  Ch16  on  global  warming)  

Intergovernmental  Panel  on  Climate  Change  2007.  Working  Group  1:  Summary  for  Policymakers”.  pp.12-­‐17  

“Our  Changing  Climate:  assessing  the  risks  to  California”  –  summary  report  from  the  California  climate  change  center  

    Broecker  (2007),  “CO2  Arithmetic”.    Science,  v316,  829-­‐830  (2007)  

Week  10:  W.D. Nordhaus. “A  Question  of  Balance:  Weighing  the  Options  on  Global  Warming  Policies,  Yale  University  Press,  New  Haven,  CT,  2008.

N. Stern et al. “Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change.” HM Treasury, 2007.  

Week  11:  Readings:    Aroonruengsawat  and  Auffhammer,  2010  (University  of  Chicago  Press),  Schlenker  and  Roberts,  2010  (PNAS),  Deschênes  and  Greenstone,  2010  (NBER).  

Week  12:  Readings:  Nordhaus  (2008),  Chapters  2,  5  and  9  

B. Groom, C. Hepburn, P. Koundouri, and D. Pearce. “Declining Discount Rates: The Long and the Short of It.” Environmental & Resource Economics, Vol. 32 (2005), pp. 445-493.

M.L. Weitzman. “A Review of the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change.” Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. 45 (2007), pp. 703-724.

W.D. Nordhaus. “A Review of the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change.” Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. 45 (2007), pp. 703-724.

P. Dasgupta. “Commentary: The Stern Review’s Economics of Climate Change.” National Institute Economic Review, Vol. 199, No. 1 (2007), pp. 4-7.

T. Sterner and U.M. Persson. “An Even Sterner Review: Introducing Relative Prices into the Discounting Debate”, Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, Vol. 2 (2008), pp. 61–76.

G. Asheim, Intergenerational Equity, Annual Review of Economics, Forthcoming 2010.

M.L. Weitzman. “Gamma Discounting.” American Economic Review, Vol. 91 (2001), pp. 260-271.

M.L. Weitzman. “On Modeling and Interpreting the Economics of Catastrophic Climate Change,” Review of Economics and Statistics: 91(1) (2009), pp. 1–19.

C. Gollier and M. Weitzman. “How Should the Distant Future be Discounted when Discount Rates are Uncertain”, CESifo Working Paper No. 2863 (2009).

D. L. Kelly and C.D. Kolstad. ‘Bayesian learning, growth, and pollution’, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control Vol. 23 (1999), pp. 491–518.

K. Keller B.M. Bolker and D.F. Bradford. „Uncertain climate thresholds and optimal economic growth”, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Vol. 48 (2004), pp.723-741.

 

Week  13:  Readings:  Lecture  Notes,  Berck  and  Helfand  (2010)  

M.L.  Weitzman.  “Prices  vs.  Quantities”,  Review  of  Economic  Studies  Vol.  41  (1974),  pp.  477-­‐491.  

 

Week  14:  Readings:  Lecture  Notes,  Barrett,  2003  (Oxford  UP),  Chapters  6  and  15    

 

 

 

 

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DevP 2xx

Interactive/Multidisciplinary Seminar

Fall 2011

Seminar Leaders: David Zilberman, Sebastian Teunissen, George Scharffenberger, Robin Marsh Units: 2 hrs seminar/wk

COURSE DESCRIPTION

The seminar has four purposes:

First, it provides an opportunity for MDP students to listen to, to discuss with and be challenged by a diverse group of invited guest speakers. Some will be academics; some, seasoned practitioners; others will be both. They will include leading UC Berkeley faculty not otherwise involved in the MDP curriculum. Others will be drawn from the wealth of experiential knowledge within the Bay Area’s innovative international development community and that of visiting thought leaders from around the world.

Second, the seminar provides students with an opportunity to integrate insights and experiential learning from other parts of the curriculum into a more holistic understanding of the concept, purpose and challenges of sustainable development practice.

Third, the seminar provides an opportunity for students to reflect on and to develop skills related to their role as practitioners of sustainable development. This will include discussion on the ethics and politics of international development as well as the role of institutional actors -- governments, international development agencies, NGOs, civil society organizations, and business (multi-national corporations, traditional businesses and social enterprises). Guest academics and practitioners will provide personal insights and facilitated discussions will build on assigned readings.

Finally, the seminar provides the opportunity for students to prepare for and reflect on their hands-on experience. The two internships (during the summer break between year one and year two, and during the winter break of year two) are key parts of the MDP’s overall learning experience. The seminar provides students with an opportunity to share plans and ideas with their peers before they go to the field and to share their lessons after they come back.

CLASS FORMAT

The seminar meets on a weekly basis and consists of presentations and guided discussions led by faculty and students. The format for discussions includes panels, role-plays and debates in addition to more traditional facilitated group discussions. Most classes feature one or more guest speakers. Students do background reading/discussion to prepare for each

seminar, sharing their issues and questions with speakers prior to the sessions. Some classes include viewing and discussion of documentary films that highlight specific issues in international development or the role of international development practitioners.

READINGS

Readings will be assigned in consultation with visiting speakers.

ASSESSMENT

Assessment is based entirely upon participation.

SYLLABUS DevP 2xx

Law, Politics, and Policymaking SP 2012

Instructors: Daniel Farber, Gordon Rausser

Units (3) 3 hrs LEC/wk

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Law, Politics, and Policymaking will introduce students to principles of law, the mechanisms of politics, political economy, and policymaking delving into fundamentals of business, as well as environmental, international, and human rights law in the context of development. This course will provide students with insights into the complex, non-technical, real-world contexts in which sustainable development practice takes place. It will consist of case studies including Political Economy of Biotechnology Regulation, Public R&D, Land Reform, Water, and Transition Economies.

Key takeaways:

- basics of legislatures, courts and regulators and interaction with politicians, the public and experts;

- rule of law culture, conflict of interest, anti-corruption - decisionmaking techniques - regulatory instruments - formal and informal legal systems - compliance tools - evaluation tools and adaptive management - use of community/public knowledge, legitimacy - how to run a public participation process - when and how to prepare an EIS - interplay of domestic, foreign and international policy/law - rights and obligations vis-à-vis neighboring states and international

community

GRADING

Case Studies (50%), Final (50%)

COURSE OUTLINE

Week 1 - Private Sector, Public Sector: Law and Regulation

Case study: Solar power

The case study will look at aspects of the development of solar power in California: legal incentives to investors; the role of subsidies and the legal “strings” attached to subsidized projects; the attempt to site a centralized installation in the desert, ideally compared to a successful solar project elsewhere; regulatory review, public participation, NGO litigation and ultimate success of one approach and rejection of the desert project. Illustrates the different parties involved and the role of law in facilitating transactions, structuring financial incentives, etc.

Readings may cover the role of government, citizens, nongovernmental organizations, the media, epistemic networks, smallholders, domestic corporations and global enterprises in the legal processes that facilitate and influence development. Channeling conflicting and synergistic incentives productively. Legitimacy, transparency. Legal Systems: Legislative, Judicial, Customary, Religious, International – Frequently, different legal systems co-exist side by side: international law, national legislation, common law, state legislation, customary law, religious law. What will contract law, water law, environmental protection law, waste disposal law, disaster law, public health law do for development? Are those goals best served by existing legal systems, or if not, what is needed?

Week 2 - Regulation of Toxic Substances, Waste Management and Pollution Prevention, Air and Water Pollution Control

Case study: Stoves in Ethiopia

The case study will look at regulating indoor air pollution, enforcing forestry laws, avoiding sexual assault, benefiting from Kyoto Protocol CDM incentives – Berkeley Lab, Ashok Gadgil project

Readings may cover Law and Economics: Understanding how economic incentives and disincentives can undermine or be tools for implementation of laws. Pollution: Protecting People – Agricultural chemicals, industrial exposures, cooking fires, contaminated water and other aspects of modern life can expose people to pollution that harms health. Students learn to reduce pollution, and to regulate where it cannot be entirely avoided. Basic concepts of command and control regulation; voluntary controls; incorporating by reference regulatory standards developed by IOs and national leaders.

Week 3 - Decision Tools

Case study: Climate change and New Orleans

Readings may cover Risk and Precaution – Risk assessment, cost benefit analysis, or precautionary approaches guide policy selection and underlie legal approaches. Climate change models and experimental technologies. Law, Science and Economics – Good laws take into account scientific knowledge and economic considerations and treat both as variable, not static. Students will learn how

legislation, regulatory implementation of laws, and administrative/judicial oversight take science and economics into account. Adaptive management; scientific review; accessing information resources.

- The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity for National and International Policy Makers (2010) http://www.teebweb.org/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=I4Y2nqqIiCg%3d&tabid=1021&language=en-US

Week 4 - Environmental Assessment

Case study: World Bank environmental assessment of [a major project]

Readings may cover Civil, Social, Environmental Rights and Laws – Rights-based approaches to life, water, biodiversity, traditional landscapes, development. Environmental Impact Assessment – Required by international and domestic law, and foreign investors, a primary tool for decisionmaking. Public participation and comment, no action alternative, transparency, record keeping, cumulative impacts.

Week 5 – Enforcement

Case study: [consider no case study this week]

Readings may cover Judicial and administrative enforcement; citizen enforcement through information sharing and citizen suits; inspectors general (who guards the guardians); addressing accidental versus intentional harms.

Week 6 - Land Use Regulation and Public Land Management

Case study: California development project

Readings may cover Land use, Forest Policy – Local and global deforestation policies; indigenous claims; carbon accounting. Coastal Zone Management, Fisheries

Week - – Resilience

Case study: To be determined

Readings may cover Disaster Law, preparing for disaster; learning from disaster. Climate change adaptation.

Week 7 – Resource Exploitation

Case study: Deepwater Horizon and deep water oil and gas exploitation

Readings may cover Managing Ecoystems: Resource Exploitation, Handling Waste, Agriculture, Sharing Water, Land Use Controls – Protecting and conserving renewable resources, like water, local/state/federal cooperation

Week 8 – Globalization

Case study: Global trade in biofuels

Readings may cover Exports and Imports: Transnational Pollution – Developing countries are importers and exporters, subject to international trade law and international environmental law. Treaties protect developing countries from imported pollution such as toxic waste. Other treaties, such as the EU REACH program and CITES, prohibit imports of certain chemicals and biological substances in products exported to other countries. Trade Rules – Compulsory licensing, national treatment, and so on – some trade law lowers barriers and makes goods and services cheaper and more available to developing countries while other trade rules can create barriers. Climate change technologies, pharmaceuticals … The expertise and expense of participating in negotiations and disputes seem out of reach. This section of the course highlights key trade issues and the resources available to assist developing country participation.

Week 9 – Theories of Political Economy

Readings: Chapter 1 of Political Power and Economic Policy: Theory, Analysis, and Empirical Applications.

Rausser, Gordon, J. Swinnen, P Zusman. 2010. Political Power and Economic Policy: Theory, Analysis, and Empirical Applications. Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.

Week 10 – Rent Seeking and Interest Groups

Readings: Krueger, A.O. 1974. “The Political Economy of the Rent-Seeking Society.” American Economic Review 64: 291-303.

Krueger, A.O. 1996. “Political economy of agricultural policy,” Public Choice 87: 73-175.

Tullock, G. 1967. “The Welfare Costs of Tariffs, Monopolies and Theft.” Western Economics Journal 5: 224-232.

Week 11 – Political Power, Influence and Lobbying and Governance Structures

Readings: Rausser, G.C., J. Swinnen, and P. Zusman. Political Power and Economic Policy, Chapters 7 and 8.

Rausser, G.C., J. Swinnen, and P. Zusman. Political Power and Economic Policy, Chapter 9.

Week 12, 13, 14 – Case Studies

- Political Economy of Biotechnology Regulation - Political Economy of Public R&D - Political Economy of Land Reform - Political Economy of Water - Political Economy of Transition Economies

Reading: Rausser, G.C., J. Swinnen, and P. Zusman. Political Power and Economic Policy, Part 3.

SYLLABUS

DevP  2xx  

Strategic Planning and Project Management

Fall  2011  

Instructors:  Arpad  Horvath,  Alice  Agogino,  John  Danner,  William  Ibbs,  George  Scharffenberger  

2  hrs  LEC  +  1  hr  DIS  

COURSE  DESCRIPTION  

This  course  consists  of  two  hours  of  lecture  per  week  plus  a  one  hour  discussion  group.  The  lectures  will  have  two  segments.  The  first  part  of  the  course  is designed to give students in the new Masters of Development Practice a pragmatic, interdisciplinary introduction to strategic planning and project management, two skills fundamental to the long- and short-term success of development organizations. It will expose them to a portfolio of models, tools and techniques drawn from the private, nonprofit and public sectors; and offer an opportunity – through case studies, simulations and class projects – to apply those approaches in settings relevant to the development field.

The second portion of the course will examine and build skills in project management as it applies to the practice of international development. It will introduce and use the concept of the “project cycle” as its organizing principle. The course will develop an understanding of and build/refine skills needed for project identification, formulation, appraisal/commitment, implementation, evaluation, and closing. The course will highlight and provide opportunities for students to develop and practice the skills of an effective project manager: technical, problem solving, negotiation, conceptual, interpersonal, leadership, and communication. Reference projects used in the course will include those of international development organizations, not-for-profit organizations (NGOs) and social enterprises. The course will include critiques of classical project management methods and, in particular, their use for international development. Overviews of several alternative models will be explored.

CLASS FORMAT

Classroom activities will consist of lectures and discussions on a specific stage of the project cycle with students and invited international development practitioners sharing their experiences and lessons learned related to the stage of the project cycle being discussed. Each class will include one or more examples of “what can go wrong.” Students will develop strategies to either avoid or deal with the referenced challenge(s) by applying project manager skills.

CLASS PROJECT

During the course, each student will develop a prototype project proposal, including description, justification, implementation plan, timeline, budget, monitoring and evaluation plan, and marketing strategy. Work on project proposals will be outside of class though time will be allotted within select classes for students to present their progress and to solicit peer assistance.

 

GRADING  

Project  (50%),  Midterm  (20%),  Final  (20%),  Class  Participation  (10%)  

COURSE  OUTLINE  

PART I:

Week 1: Strategic Planning 101 • What is strategy in the first place?

• What analytical and conceptual models do organizations use in developing strategic plans?

• What are their respective strengths and weaknesses?

• Does strategic planning differ significantly among different types of organizations?

Readings:

"What is Strategy?" Michael A. Porter, Harvard Business Review (1996-11-01)

Private Sector Strategies for Social Sector Success: The Guide to Strategy and Planning for Public and Nonprofit Organizations, Kevin P. Kearns, Jossey-Bass, 2000

"The Fall and Rise of Strategic Planning," Henry Mintzberg, Harvard Business Review: Jan/Feb 1994: 107-114

Creative Destruction, Foster, R., and Kaplan, S., New York: Doubleday, Chapter 11

Strategic planning for public and nonprofit organizations: A guide to strengthening and sustaining organizational achievement, Bryson, John M., San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. 3rd ed., 2006

Week 2: Strategic Planning Toolkit (a sampler) • What does the basic repertoire of strategic planning tools include? For example,

how does scenario planning differ from SWOT analysis, the BCG Matrix or “Five Forces” tools?

Readings:

Strategic Planning: What Every Manager Must Know, Steiner, G.A., The Free Press, 1997 (excerpts)

“Making strategy: Learning by doing,” Christensen, C. M., Harvard Business Review (Nov-Dec 1997)

Case:

“Rwanda: National Economic Transformation,” Michael Porter, Michael McCreless, Harvard Business School Case, 2008

Week 3: Strategy - From The Outside In and Inside Out • How can organizations assess the environments within which they will likely

[choose to] operate in the future?

• How can one develop effective strategies in the middle of major changes, whether technological, political, economic or other?

• How does an organization define a compelling vision to guide its strategic planning?

• How do internal factors – culture, core competencies, tradition, etc. – affect strategic plans?

Readings:

“Strategy making in novel and complex worlds: The power of analogy,” Gavetti, G., Levinthal, D. A., & Rivkin, J. W., Strategic Management Journal (2005), 26(8), 691-712

“Creating Strategy in an Unknowable Universe,” Eric D. Beinhocker, HBS Working Knowledge, 6/19/2006 (from The Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics, 2006, McKinsey & Company

“Framing contests: Strategy making under uncertainty,” Kaplan, S., Organization Science (2008), 19(5), 729-752

“Cartographic myths in organizations,” Weick, K. E., in A. S. Huff (Ed.), Mapping Strategic Thought, Chichester, England: John Wiley & Sons, 1990

Shaping A Region’s Future: A Guide to Strategic Decision-Making for Regions, William R. Dodge and Kim Montgomery

Case:

“Panmai Co-Operative (Revised 2002)”, Paul W. Beamish, Elizabeth M.A. Grasby,

Krista, Ivey School of Business

Week 4: From Developing Strategic Plans (Where?) to Managing Strategic Projects (How?)

• What’s the linkage between organizational strategy, operational unit business plans and critical projects?

• What are the fundamental challenges associated with managing projects?

Readings:

“Placing Strategic Bets: The Portfolio Approach--Measuring and Managing Innovation Risk,” from Harvard Business Essentials: The Innovator's Toolkit, HBS Press, 2009

A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge: (Pmbok Guide), Project Management Institute, 2008

“Project Management as Process: Four Phases,” from Managing Projects Large and Small: The Fundamental Skills for Delivering on Budget and on Time, HBS Press, 2004

“Lofty Missions, Down-to-Earth Plans,” V. Kasturi Rangan. Harvard Business Review: March 2004

Week 5: Life Inside a PMO (Project Management Organization) • What kinds of decisions and tradeoffs do successful project managers have to

make? How can project managers optimize performance while remaining on time and under budget?

• Why do so many vital projects fail?

Readings:

Using the Project Management Maturity Model: Strategic Planning for Project Management, Harold Kerzner, Wiley, 2005

Case/Simulation:

“Project Management Simulation: Scope, Resources, Schedule,”

Robert D. Austin, Harvard Business School Product 3356-HTM-ENG, 2009

Weeks 6 and 7: The Horizon for Project Managers • What new models and tools are emerging that may improve the art of project

management in complex organizations?

• How do these link with organizational change, balanced scorecard and business process integration frameworks?

Readings:

Reinventing Project Management for Your Organization, Aaron J. Shenhar, Dov Dvir, HBS Press, 2007

Project Management: Strategic Design and Implementation,

David Cleland, Lewis Ireland, McGraw-Hill, 2006

Other Resources:

“Strategic Planning and the Pursuit of Reform,” Mier, R.; Moe, K.J.; and Sherr, I. Economic Development and Equity. Journal of the American Planning Association. 52, 3, Summer, 1986

Fred R. David, Strategic Management: Concepts, 10/E. Englewood Cliffs, NJ, Prentice Hall, 2005

The Strategy Concept and Process: A Pragmatic Approach, (2nd Edition), Arnoldo C. Hax (Author), Nicolas S. Majluf, Prentice Hall, 1996

Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant, W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne, HBS Press, 2005

PART II:

Project Management for International Development: The Project Cycle

TEXT

Fundamentals of Project Management for Development Organizations (Second Edition). Project Management for Development (PM4D), 2009. [provisional]

Week 8 and 9: Project Identification and Project Formulation

• What is a project • Project cycle • Project design processes • Project stakeholders: implementing organizations, funders, direct and

indirect beneficiaries, customers, neighbors and more • Programs: long and medium term objectives • Conceptual models/theory of change • Introduction to the logical framework/results framework • Goals • Objectives • Activities • Indicators: process/results • Means of verification

Week 10: Project Appraisals and Commitment

• Project Proposal • Implementation Plan • Budgeting • Innovation and Strengths • Risk Assessment • Sustainability analysis

o Social o Financial o Technical o Organizational/Mgt o Environmental

• Marketing Plan • Internal support: Champions

Week 11: Project Implementation

• Management/leadership styles • The project management ecosystem • Project management constraints: scope, resources, schedule, quality • Managing scope • Managing resources: Human, financial, information • Managing schedule: Workplan • Managing for quality: Stakeholder relations and partnerships • Monitoring

Weeks 12: Project Evaluation and close out

• Process v. Outputs v. Outcomes v. Impact • Evaluation purpose and evaluation design • Understanding and disseminating evaluation results • Integrating learning into programs and projects

• Project closeout: Going out in style Week 13: Critiques and Alternatives to Classical Project Management

• Critiques o International development

Development: with whom, by whom and for whom? The problem of “participation” Fundamentally bureaucratic: distorted market signals

o One size can’t fit all Building a house and developing software are different than

transforming agricultural Cultural biases: linear, hierarchical, non-relational

o Imperfectly practiced Art v. science Wrong assumptions/wrong theory of change = uncertain

outcome • Alternatives

o Market-based strategies/output based aid o Design thinking o Project Management 2.0

Week 14: Lessons from the class and the project

• What did we learn from the course about our strengths and weaknesses in strategic design and project management?

• What do we need to know?

• How can we make this knowledge more practical?

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DevP 2XX

Environmental Economics and Policy

Fall Semester 2011

Lecturers: David Zilberman, David Sunding, David Roland-Holst, Richard Norgaard

3 hrs LEC/wk

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This course will introduce the students to the basic concepts of environmental economics including economic welfare, externality, public good, global commons, policy approaches for dealing with externality - regulation, taxation, liability, cap and trade, valuation of environmental benefits/damage, concept of nonmarket value, revealed preference, stated preference, hedonic, value of a statistical life. We will consider distributional effects of environmental policies and challenges of implementation including monitoring and enforcement. It will address design of policies at various scales form the village to the global commons. Part of the course will include case studies where groups of participants will work together to design economic incentives and policy solutions to major problems. It will have sections on particular problems including climate change, water and air quality, animal waste, toxic contamination, forestry and fishery policy.

GRADING

Midterm (30%), Final (40%), Paper (30%)

COURSE OUTLINE

Lecture 1: Basic Welfare Economics

Lecture 2-5: Externality and Public Good Control Policies

-­‐ Policy Objectives and Tools

-­‐ The Role of Government vs. Markets

-­‐ Political Economy of Environmental Policy

-­‐ Implementation and Monitoring

Lecture 6: Payment for Ecosystem Services, other externality case studies

Lecture 7-8: Technology and Environmental Risk

Lecture 9-10: Precision and Ecological Agriculture

-­‐ Irrigation

-­‐ Pest and Disease Control

-­‐ Biotechnology

Lecture 11-12: Valuation of Environmental Amenities: Theory and Case Studies

Lecture 13-14: Review/MIDTERM

Lecture 15-18: Dynamic Systems

-­‐ Discounting and Benefit-Cost Analysis

-­‐ Renewable Resources

-­‐ Nonrenewable Resources

-­‐ Irreversibility

Lecture 19-20: Forestry and Fisheries

Lecture 21-22: Water and Land

-­‐ Economics of Surface and Groundwater

-­‐ Water projects

-­‐ Land Value

Lecture 23-24: International Trade, Development and the Environment

Lecture 25-26: Economics of Climate Change and Energy

Lecture 27: Biodiversity

Lecture 28: Review

READINGS

Lecture 1:

When is a Market Socially Optimal?; Welfare Economics

Lecture 2-5:

Negative Externalities and Policy; Pollution Control under Heterogeneity; Property Rights and Political Economy; Public Goods; and Public Goods, part 2

Lecture 6:

Engel, Stefanie, Stefano Pagiola, and Sven Wunder. Designing payments for environmental services in theory and practice: An overview of the issues. Ecological Economics 65 (2008) 663-674. Elsevier.

Wunder, Sven, Stefanie Engel, Stefano Pagiola. Taking stock: A comparative analysis of payments for environmental services programs in developed and developing countries. Ecological Economics 65 (2008) 834-852. Elsevier.

Lecture 7-8:

Sunding, D. and Zilberman, D., 2001. The agricultural innovation process: research and technology adoption in a changing agricultural sector. In: Gardner, B. and Rausser, G., Editors, 2001. Handbook of Agricultural Economics vol. 1, Elsevier.

Lichtenberg, Erik. Economics of Health Risk Assessment. Annual Review of Resource Economics. 2010 (forthcoming)

Lecture 9-10:

Khanna, Madhu and David Zilberman. Incentives, precision technology and environmental protection. Ecological Economics 23 (1997) 25-43. Elsevier.

Qaim, Matin. The Economics of Genetically Modified Crops. Annual Review of Resource Economics (2009) vol. 1:665-694.

Lecture 11-12:

Caron, Richard T. (March 3, 2000).Contingent Valuation: A User’s Guide. Environmental Science and Technology. Vol. 34, No. 8, pp 1413-1418.

Reader Chapter: Valuation of Environmental Benefits

Cropper, Maureen L. and Wallace E. Oates. Environmental Economics: A Survey. Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. 30, No. 2 (June 1992), pp. 675-740

Lecture 13-14: Review and Midterm

Lecture 15-18:

Reader for EEP 102, David Sunding, Lectures on these topics

Lecture 19-20:

Reader for EEP 101, David Zilberman, Lectures on these topics

Lecture 21-22:

Schoengold, K. & Zilberman, D. (2007). The economics of water, irrigation and development. In Handbook of Agricultural Economics: Agricultural

Development: Farmers, Farm Production and Farm Markets. Vol. 3, pages 2933-2977. Evenson, R. E., Pingali, P. & Schultz, T. P. (eds). North-Holland, Amsterdam.

Otsuka, Keijiro (2007). Efficiency and Equity Effects of Land Markets. In Handbook of Agricultural Economics: Agricultural Development: Farmers, Farm Production and Farm Markets. Vol. 3, pages 2671-2703. Evenson, R. E., Pingali, P. & Schultz, T. P. (eds). North-Holland, Amsterdam.

Lecture 23-24:

Beghin, John, David Roland-Holst, and Dominique van der Mensbrugghe. A Survey of the Trade and Environmental Nexus: Global Dimensions. OECD Economic Studies No. 23, Winter 1994.

Lecture notes EEP 101 on this topic

Lecture 25-26:

Popp, David. Innovation and Climate Policy. Annual Review of Resource Economics (2010), Vol. 2, pp. 275-298

Mendelsohn, Robert, and Ariel Dinar. Land Use and Climate Change Interaction. Annual Review of Resource Economics (2009) Vol. 1, pp 309-332.

Lecture 27:

Polasky, Stephen, and Kathleen Segerson. Integrating Ecology and Economics in the Study of Ecosystem Services: Some Lessons Learned. Annual Review of Resource Economics (2009) Vol. 1, pp. 435-459.

SYLLABUS  

DevP  2xx  

Innovation,  Product  Development  and  Markets  

Instructors:  Sofia  Villas-­‐Boas,  Sara  Boettiger  

Units  (3)  2hrs/wk  LEC  +  1  hr  discussion  

COURSE  DESCRIPTION  

The  course  will  include  presentations  on  basic  concepts  of  innovation  and  product  development  and  marketing  in  the  context  of  development,  as  well  as  weekly  meetings  to  develop  and  present  individual  projects.    

The  first  sequence  of  presentations  will  introduce  an  overview  of  innovation  systems  including  the  innovation  process  from  research  to  innovation  to  development,  commercialization  and  marketing.  It  will  analyze  alternative  knowledge  and  innovation  systems  and  the  role  of  public  and  private  sector  interactions;  Culture  and  innovation;  Innovation  and  regulation.  

A  second  sequence  will  address  mechanisms  of  transfer  of  technologies  between  and  within  countries  as  well  as  sectors.  It  will  present  analysis  of  alternative  structures  of  transfer  of  knowledge  and  technologies  from  universities  to  the  private  sector;  technology  transfer  across  nations;  and  mechanisms  to  analyze  adoption  and  diffusion  of  technologies.    

The  last  segment  on  marketing,  strategy  and  consumer  behavior  deals  with  the  challenge  of  bringing  to  market  efficient  solutions  to  strong  customer  needs.  This  challenge  is  fundamental  in  customer-­‐based  innovation.    It  will  create  in  the  context  of  developing  countries  a  framework  to  take  a  concept,  assess  consumer  response  and  develop  a  successful  marketing  network.  In  many  cases  this  is  a  physical  products  and  in  other  cases  it  could  be  a  concept  like  integrated  pest  management.  In  addition,  the  setup  needs  to  take  into  account  that  the  “entrepreneurs”  are  very  poor  people,  sometimes  partially  funded  by  non-­‐profit  driven  agencies,  sometimes  not.  The  industrial  organization  aspects  are  very  important  in  the  context  of  development.  In  many  cases  there  are  monopolies  that  serve  as  constraints  to  initiatives,  so  designing  marketing  chains  requires  understanding  of  the  marketing  network,  the  industrial  organization  and  the  role  of  policy.  

GRADING  

Midterm  (30%),  Final  (40%),  Paper  (30%)  

 

COURSE  OUTLINE  

Week  1:  Alternative  Theories  of  Innovation  and  Their  Implication  

Week  2:  Innovation  Systems  and  Policies:  The  Role  of  the  Public  Sector    

Week  3:  Design  and  Selection  of  Research  and  Development  Projects  

Week  4:  Intellectual  Property  Rights  and  Commercialization  of  Innovation  

Week  5:  Technology  Transfer  In  Practice  

Week  6:  Alternative  Perspectives  on  Diffusion  of  Technologies  and  Their  Implications  

Week  7:  Adoption  of  Technologies  in  Developing  Countries  

Week  8:  Marketing  and  Product  Positioning  

Week  9:  Developing  ideas  to  meet  consumer  needs  

Week  10:  Assessing  Consumer  Demand  

Week  11:  Measuring  Willingness  to  Pay  for  Product  Attributes  

Week  12:  Case  Studies  

Week  13:  Distribution  

Week  14:  Marketing  Tools  

 

READING  

Weeks  1-­7:  

Blank,  Steven  Gary,  “Four  Steps  to  the  Epiphany”,  chapter  1  and  2,  Cafepress.com,  2004.  

Edquist,  Charles.  Systems  of  innovation:  Perspectives  and  Challenges.  Chapter  7.  The  Oxford  handbook  of  innovation,  Oxford  University  Press,  eds.  Jan  Fagerberg,  David  C.  Mowery,  Richard  R.  Nelson  (2005).  

Masters,  William  A.  Paying  for  Prosperity:  How  and  Why  to  Invest  in  Agricultural  R&D  for  Development  in  Africa.  Journal  of  International  Affairs,  vol.  58,  no.  2,  Spring  2005.  Special  Issue  on  Finance  Challenges  of  the  Millennium  Development  Goals.  

Sunding,  David,  and  David  Zilberman.  “The  Agricultural  Innovation  Process:  Research  and  Technology  Adoption  in  a  Changing  Agricultural  Sector,”  Handbook  of  Agricultural  Economics,  Volume  1A  Agricultural  Production,  ed.  Bruce  L.  Gardner  and  Gordon  C.  Rausser  (Amsterdam,  the  Netherlands:  Elsevier  Science  B.  V.,  2001),  pp.  207-­‐261.  

Graff,  Gregory,  Amir  Heiman,  and  David  Zilberman.  “University  Research  and  Offices  of  Technology  Transfer,”  California  Management  Review,  Vol.  45,  No.  1  (Fall,  2002),  pp.  88-­‐115.  

Chigona,  W.,  and  P.  Licker.  Using  diffusion  of  innovations  framework  to  explain  communal  facilities  adoption  among  the  urban  poor.  Information  technologies  and  international  development.  (2008),  Vol.  4,  Iss.  3,  pp.  57  

Gregory  Graff,  “Echoes  of  Bayh-­‐Dole:  A  Survey  of  Intellectual  Property  and  Technology  Transfer  Policies  in  Emerging  and  Developing  Economies”  in  A.  Krattiger,  R.  Mahoney,  L.  Nelsen,  et  al,  Eds.,  Intellectual  Property  Management  in  Health  and  Agricultural  Innovation:  A  Handbook  of  Best  Practices.  (MIHR:  Oxford,  UK  and  PIPRA:  Davis,  CA.  2007),  pp.  169-­‐196.  

Gourville,  John  T.,  "Note  on  Innovation  Diffusion:  Rogers'  Five  Factors”,  Journal  of  Product  Innovation  Management,  2006.    

Gourville,  John,  “Eager  Sellers,  Stony  Buyers”,  Harvard  Business  Review,  2006.  (optional)  

Managing  sales:  Leslie,  Mark  and  Holloway,  Charles  A.,  “The  Sales  Learning  Curve”,  Harvard  Business  Publishing,  2006.    

Weeks  8-­14:  

Patnaik,  Dev  and  Robert  Becker,  “Needfinding:  The  Why  and  How  of  Uncovering  People's  Needs,”  Design  Management  Journal,  1999.    

Ulwick,  Anthony,  “Turn  Customer  Input  into  Innovation”,  Harvard  Business  Review,  2002.    

Bower,  Joseph  L.,  and  Clayton  M  Christensen,  “Disruptive  Technologies:  Catching  the  Wave,”  Harvard  Business  Review,  1995.    

von  Hippel,  E.,  S.  Thomke,  M.  Sonnack,  “Creating  Breakthroughs  at  3M,”  Harvard  Business  Review,  1999.    

Dolan,  Robert  J.,  “Analyzing  Consumer  Preferences”,  Harvard  Business  Publishing,  1999.    

Green,  Paul  E.,  and  Yoram  Wind,  “New  Way  to  Measure  Consumer  Judgments”,  Harvard  Business  Review,  1975.    

Visser,  P.  S.,  Krosnick,  J.  A.,  &  Lavrakas,  P.  J.  (2000).  Survey  research.  In  H.  T.  Reis  and  C.  M  Judd  (Eds.)  Handbook  of  research  methods  in  social  and  personality  psychology  Cambridge  University  Press:  Cambridge,  UK,  pp.  230-­‐237.  

Petty,  R.E.  &  Caccioppo,  J.T.  (1981)  Attitudes  and  Persuasion:  Classic  and  Contemporary  Approaches,  Wm.  C.  Brown  Company  Publishers:  Dubuque,  Iowa,  pp.  6-­‐29.  

Himmelfarb,  S.  (1993)  The  Measurement  of  Attitudes,  In  A.H.  Eagly,  &  S.  Chaiken,  The  Psychology  of  Attitudes,  pp.  23-­‐29  &  52-­‐57.  

Schwarz,  N.  (1999)  Self-­‐Reports:  How  the  Questions  Shape  the  Answers.  American  Psychologist,  Vol.  54,  No.  2,  pp.  93-­‐105.  

Becker,  Robert,  "Direct  Observation:  Some  Practical  Advice",  Jump  White  Paper,  Jump  Associates,  1999.    

Patnaik,  Dev,  "System  Logics:  How  Companies  Organize  Their  Offerings  To  Solve  Big  Needs",  Design  Management  Journal,  2004  (optional).    

Page,  Albert  L.  and  Harold  F.  Rosenbaum,  “Redesigning  Product  Lines  with  Conjoint  Analysis:  How  Sunbeam  Does  It,”  Journal  of  Product  Innovation  Management,  1987  

Dolan,  Robert  J.,  “Concept  testing  note”,  Harvard  Business  Publishing,  1989.  

Caswell,  J.A.,  and  D.I.  Padberg.  “Toward  a  More  Comprehensive  Theory  of  Food  Labels.”  American  Journal  of  Agricultural  Economics  74(1992):460-­‐68.  

Dhar,  T.  and  J.  D.  Foltz.  “Milk  by  Any  Other  Name…Consumer  Benefits  from  Labeled  Milk.”  American  Journal  of  Agricultural  Economics  87(2005):214-­‐228.  

DuPuis,  E.  “Not  in  my  body:  rBGH  and  the  rise  of  organic  milk.”  Agriculture  andHuman  Values  17(2000):  285-­‐295.  

Huffman,  W.E.,  Shogren,  J.F.,  Rousu,  M.,  and  Tegene,  A.  “Consumer  Willingness  to  Pay  for  Genetically  Modified  Foods  Labels  in  a  Market  with  Diverse  Information:  Evidence  from  Experimental  Auctions.”  Journal  of  Agricultural  Resource  Economics  28(2003):481-­‐502.  

Ippolito  P.M.,  J.K.  Pappalardo.  Advertising,  Nutrition  &  Health.  Evidence  from  Food  Advertising.  Washington,  DC:  Federal  Trade  Commission,  Bureau  of  Economics  Staff  Report,  September  2002.  

Ippolito,  P.M.,  and  A.D.  Mathios.  “Information  and  Advertising:  The  Case  of  Fat  Consumption  in  the  United  States.”  American  Economic  Review  85(1995):91-­‐95.  

Kiesel,  K.  and  S.  Villas-­‐Boas,  2007.  "Got  Organic  Milk?  Consumer  Valuations  of  Milk  Labels  after  the  Implementation  of  the  USDA  Organic  Seal,"  Journal  of  Agricultural  &  Food  Industrial  Organization:  Vol.  5  :  Iss.  1,  Article  4.  

Rosen,  S.  “Hedonic  Prices  and  Implicit  Markets:  Product  Differentiation  in  Pure  Competition.”  Journal  of  Political  Economy  82(1974):34-­‐55.  

Marks,  L.  Kalaitzandonakes  N.,  and  Vickner,  S.  “Evaluating  Consumer  Response  to  GM  Foods:  Some  Methodological  Considerations.”  Current  Agriculture,  Food  &  Resource  Issues  4(2003):80-­‐94.  

Marn,  Michael  V.,  Eric  V.  Roegner,  and  Craig  C.  Zawada,  “Pricing  New  Products,”  McKinsey  Quarterly,  2003.    

Lancaster,  K.  (1990),  “The  Economics  of  Product  Variety:  A  Survey,”  Marketing  Science,  9  (3),  189-­‐206.  Link  to  paper.    

Jedidi,  K.,  C.  Mela  and  S.  Gupta  (1999),  “Managing  Advertising  and  Promotion  for  Long-­‐run  Profitability,”  Marketing  Science,  18  (1),  1-­‐22.  Link  to  paper    

Villas-­‐Boas,  J.  M.  (1993),  “Predicting  Advertising  Pulsing  Policies  in  an  Oligopoly:  A  Model  and  Empirical  Test,”  Marketing  Science,  12  (1),  88-­‐102.  Link  to  paper    

Choi,  S.  (1991),  “Price  Competition  in  a  Channel  Structure  with  a  Common  Retailer,”  Marketing  Science,  10  (4),  271-­‐296.  Link  to  paper  to  be  added.    

 Messinger,  P.  and  C.  Narasimhan  (1995),  “Has  Power  Shifted  in  the  Grocery  Channel?”  Marketing  Science,  14  (2),  189-­‐223.  Link  to  paper  tba.    

 

SYLLABUS

DevP 2XX

Leadership, Conflict Resolution, and Community Development

SP Semester 2012

Instructors: Isha Ray, Susan Carpenter, Tony Barclay

Units (3) 2 hrs LEC + 1 hr DIS/wk

COURSE DESCRIPTION

The course presents an interdisciplinary perspective and hands-on skills for communal resource management, leadership and conflict resolution in the context of development. The first segment provides a critical overview of the literature on communal resource management, emphasizing participatory approaches, with several case studies. It also sheds light on the relationship between government agencies and NGOs in the context of resource management. The second part of the course will provide an overview of the theory and skills needed to work productively with local, national and international partners in urban and rural settings to support desired development outcomes. The course will include components on leadership styles, personality temperaments, effective communication, consensus decision-making, negotiation, and collaborative processes. The course will help the students develop an understanding of their own strengths and weaknesses as leaders and to nurture their confidence to envision themselves as, and aspire to be, leaders throughout their careers. Another segment will be on Community Capacity and Community Participation. The last segment of the course will address issues of conflict and policymaking in a global context and provide the institutional perspective of development organizations and strategies.

GRADING

Class Participation (30%), Midterm (30%), Final (40%)

COURSE OUTLINE

Week 1: What is community-based natural resource management and how does community participation foster sustainable resource management practices? Insights from common-pool economics / institutional economics /anthropology.

Week 2: Critical development theory and its views on the centrality of community & of participation. In what key ways does their support of community based management differ from Ostrom, Dasgupta, World Bank?

Week 3: Detailed discussion of 3 case studies on irrigation / forestry /conservation from S Asia and Africa (e.g. Nepalese irrigation systems /joint forest management in India / CAMPFIRE in Zimbabwe)

Week 4: How did community-based natural resource management / community participation become central in the agenda of international development practice? The history of participation from a counter-movement / critique of centralized project planning to a mainstream & favored option – now supported by World Bank, leading NGOs, many national governments. What rationales for participation (going back to the literatures in Weeks 1 &2) did various groups draw on for support?

Week 5: Critiques of participation as "the new tyranny", constraints to participation in real-world political economy, questions on what is a community in the first place

Week 6: Re-visit the 3 cases of week 3 in light of contrarian views of community and of participation. What we conclude on community participation and development practice.

Week 7: Causes of conflict and barriers to effective community development;

Week 8: Leadership styles, qualities and traits; Personality temperaments;

Week 9: Cross-cultural communication awareness; Active listening; Negotiation (approaches, strategies, steps, preparation, tactics to avoid);

Week 10: Overview of collaborative approaches for complex issues (dialogues, visioning, partnerships, collaborative problem solving, negotiations, mediations); How collaborative approaches work

Week 11: The Global Development Ecosystem;

Week 12: Designing Organizations for Development Action

Week 13: Team and Institutional Building within a Global Context;

Week 14: Managing Change in Dynamic Project Environments

READINGS

Weeks 1-6: Authors to be covered include Elinor Ostrom, Robert Wade, NS Jodha, Partha Dasgupta, Louise Fortmann, World Bank studies; Arturo Escobar, James Ferguson, Vandana Shiva; Cook & Kothari, David Mosse, Tania Murray Li, maybe Michael Goldman.

Week 7-10: Leading Change, Kotter, J. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 1996; The Change Handbook, The Definitive Resource on Today’s Best Methods for Engaging Whole Systems, Holman, P., Devane, T., Cady, S.,eds., San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 2007; Getting to Yes, Fisher, R. and Ury, W. Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin, l981.

Week 11-14: Ian Smillie (2009): Freedom from Want: The Remarkable Story of BRAC, the Global Grassroots Organization That’s Winning the Fight Against Poverty. Kumarian Press; Sebastian Mallaby (2004): The World’s Banker: A Story of Failed States. Financial Crises, and the Wealth and Poverty of Nations. The Penguin Press.

(Preface and Chapter 1, pp 1-40, and Chapter 14, pp 374-394, are especially relevant to Week One of the workshop.); Nancy Birdsall et al (2008): The White House and the World: A Global Development Agenda for the Next President. Center for Global Development. (Introduction, pp 1-42, and Chapter 10, pp 273-298, are especially relevant to Week One.); Owen Barder (2009): Markets, Networks and Planning for More Effective Aid; Center for U.S. Global Engagement (2009): Report on Reports – An Analysis of Over 20 Recent Reports on Revitalizing America’s Civilian Capacity in Foreign Affairs; Gordon Adams (2008): Getting Foreign Assistance Right. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists; Freed, R. (2003). Writing Winning Business Proposals. McGraw Hill; Hamper, R. and Baugh, S. (1995) Handbook for Writing Proposals. McGraw Hill

SYLLABUS

DevP 2XX:

Principles of Natural Resource Management

FA Semester 2011

Lecture: 2hrs/wk

Instructors: Vincent Resh, Claire Kremen, Lewis Feldman, Peggy Lemaux

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This course will present a cross-disciplinary approach to environmental problem solving. It will involve theory, case histories, and model different scenarios. It will include several segments that will present diverse perspectives.

The first segment will introduce basic concepts like renewable and nonrenewable resources as well as sustainability, cover modeling and management of biological resources including the dynamics of population growth, harvesting and exploitation theory, methods to analyze population interactions with applications to fisheries, forests, pest, wildlife, and livestock management.

The second segment will address issues and principles of management of genetics resources, crop breeding, and biodiversity. In particular, it will introduce principles related to the application of modern genetics approaches to understanding and improving plants for sustainability and natural resource management will be presented. A rudimentary knowledge of the fundamental principals associated with such technologies, which are likely to become more pervasive in the future, is essential for an informed policymaker or a practitioner.

The third segment of the course will address principles for management of 1) water quality in the development context, restoring and protecting water resources, technology to enable or facilitate drinking water access and treatment, and sanitation; and 2) air quality in the development context, causes and consequences of air pollution in developing countries, technological opportunities for air pollution control.

The fourth segment will introduce the principles of conservation of biodiversity both through design, establishment and management of protected areas, and, using a more inclusive perspective that considers conserving biodiversity in the working lands around protected areas, through land uses that both support and benefit from ecosystem services provided by biodiversity. It would also utilize the concept of ecosystem services to inform lectures on the major uses of renewable natural resources and options for their sustainable use, including agriculture, forestry and fisheries.

The four segments will provide the foundation of scientific understanding that will be needed for individuals to develop more effective paths toward sustainable development in the 21st century. The course will emphasize choosing case studies that

involve social, economic and ecological components and ramifications. Participants will be expected to contact personnel involved in case studies and model different outcomes based on changes in input variables resulting from these contacts.

GRADING

Four exams, 25% each

COURSE OUTLINE

Week 1: Agricultural Resources

Week 2: The plant body: cell and tissue types

Week 3: Photosynthesis and water relations; outstanding and unique processes in plants

Week 4: Plant development; hormones, flowers, and reproduction

Week 5: Application of modern genetics to agriculture  

Week 6: Use of molecular tools for breeding

Week 7: Soils

Week 8: Basics of climate change

Week 9: Water Resources

Week 10: Wildlife Resources

Week 11: Biodiversity and environmental services

Week 12: Conservation and Restoration of biodiversity

Week 13: Resource Sustainability

Week 14: Alternative Energy

READINGS:

Week 1: (Lal 2007; Price 2007; Conway et al 2005; Olsson et al 2004; Alteri 2002; Westermann et al 2005; Yang 2006)

Week 2: "Biology",  8th  edition  by  Campbell,  pages  738-­‐59  

Week  3:  "Biology",  8th  edition  by  Campbell,  pages  185-­‐205  and  764-­‐784  

Week  4:  "Biology",  8th  edition  by  Campbell,  pages  757-­‐776,  801-­‐813,  and  825-­‐847  

Weeks  5  and  6:  

Ellstrand  NC.  2006.  Genetic  Engineering  and  Pollen  Flow,  ANR  publication  8182  -­‐  PDF  (Link  in  Fact  Sheets  section  in  Resources  of  ucbiotech.org)  

Federoff  N,  Brown  NM.  2004.  "Mendel  in  the  Kitchen:  A  Scientist's  View  of  Genetically  Modified  Foods",  National  Academies  Press  (Can  be  downloaded  at:  http://cart.nap.edu/cart/cart.cgi?list=fs&action=buy%20it&record_id=11000&isbn=0-­‐309-­‐53186-­‐1)  

Lemaux  PG.  2008.  “Genetically  Engineered  Plants  and  Foods:  A  Scientist’s  Analysis  of  the  Issues  (Part  I)".  Annual  Review  of  Plant  Biology  59:  771-­‐812.(Downloadable  in  Biotechnology  Information  section  of  ucbiotech.org)  

Lemaux  PG.  2009.  “Genetically  Engineered  Plants  and  Foods:  A  Scientist’s  Analysis  of  the  Issues  (Part  II)".  Annual  Review  of  Plant  Biology  60:  511–59.(Downloadable  in  Biotechnology  Information  section  of  ucbiotech.org)  

Ronald  P,  Fouche  B.  2006.  Genetic  Engineering  and  Organic  Production  Systems,  ANR  publication  8188  (Link  in  Fact  Sheets  section  in  Resources  Of  ucbiotech.org)  

Weeks  7  and  8:    

  To  be  determined  

Week 9: (Chan et al 2006; Folke et al 2004; McPherson and DeStefano 2003 pgs. ix-125; Charles 2001 pgs. 9-21, 138-191)

Week 10: (Milner-Gulland 2003; Cooke and Cowx)

Week 11: What is Biodiversity, Law School reader (sorry don’t have this with me), Millenium Ecosystem Assessment, Biodiversity Chapter; Naylor, R., H. Steinfeid, W. Falcon, J. Galloways, V. Smil, E. Bradford, J. Alder, and H. Mooney. 2005. Losing the links between livestock and land. Science 310:1621-1622.

Week 12: Groom, M., J.,, G. Meffe, K.,, and C. R. Carroll 2006. Principles of Conservation Biology. Sinauer Associates, Inc., Sunderland, Massachusetts. Selected pages; Margules, C. R., and R. L. Pressey. 2000. Systematic conservation planning. Nature 405:243-253; Sunding, K. N., K. L. Gross, and G. R. Houseman. 2004. Alternative states and positive feedbacks in restoration ecology. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 19:46-53.; Murphree M. W. 2009. The strategic pillars of communal natural resource management: benefit, empowerment and conservation. Biodiversity and Conservation 18:2551-2562.

Week 13: Tilman, D., K. G. Cassman, P. A. Matson, R. Naylor, and S. Polasky. 2002. Agricultural sustainability and intensive production practices. Nature (London) 418:671-677; Pearson, C. J. 2007. Regenerative, semiclosed systems: A priority for twenty-first-century agriculture. Bioscience 57:409-418; Scherr and McNeely, Ecoagriculture, Proc Roy Society;

SYLLABUS

DevP 2XX

Quantitative Methods and Impact Evaluation

Fall Semester 2011

Lecture: 1.5 hrs twice/wk

Instructors: Maximilian Auffhammer, Elisabeth Sadoulet, Edward Miguel, Paul Gertler

COURSE DESCRIPTION

The first part of the course is designed to introduce students with minimal background in statistics to the basic concepts of estimation, prediction, and hypothesis testing. The second part of the course will focus on impact evaluation theory as well as methods and will explore the variety of tools available for rigorously measuring the impact of development programs on poverty. The curriculum will be applied, with weekly applied case studies drawn from the international sustainable development literature and case studies of field literature. Students will be exposed to issues related to research ethics and the protection of human subjects. At the conclusion each student will design an impact evaluation of a policy or intervention, assess the validity of the policy or intervention, make concrete suggestions for improving research design, and assess the validity of applied methods.

GRADING

Midterm (30%), Final (40%), Paper (30%)

COURSE OUTLINE

Week 1: Course Introduction

Week 2-3: Introduction and Fundamental Tools: Review of Basic Algebra, Social Science Questions and Data, Introduction to Probability Theory, Introduction to Statistics

Week 4-6: Regression Models: Linear Regression with One Regressor, Regression with a Single Regressor: Hypothesis Tests and Confidence Intervals, Linear Regression with Multiple Regressors, Hypothesis Tests and Confidence Intervals in Multiple Regression, Assessing Studies Based on Multiple Regression

Week 7: Advanced Topics: Regression with Panel Data, Instrumental Variables Regression, Experiments and Quasi-Experiments

Week 8: Introduction to Impact Evaluation in International Development

Week 9: Randomized Evaluation 1: Introduction, methodology, and the basic econometrics (Case Study: conditional cash trasnfers in Mexico); and Randomized

Evaluations II: Applications (Case Studies: housing vouchers in the US, microfinance in South Africa, and agriculture in Kenya)

Week 10: Randomized Evaluations III: Complications, Externalities (Case Study: deworming drugs in Kenya); and Research Ethics (Case Study: HIV prevention educational programs in Kenya)

Week 11: Regression Discontinuity (Case Studies: scholarship program for girls in Kenya, educational finance in Chile); and External Validity (Case Studies: anti-corruption programs in Indonesia and Brazil, & community-based monitoring of health clinics in Uganda)

Week 12: Matching, Propensity Score; and Data Quality, Logistics

Week 13: Differences in Differences (Case Studies: malaria eradication in the Americas and land reform in India); and Power Calculations

Week 14: Summary/Group Presentations

READINGS

Week 1-7:

MAIN TEXT:

James H. Stock and Mark W. Watson. 2011. Introduction to Econometrics, Third Edition. Prentice Hall. ISBN-10: 0138009007 ISBN-13: 9780138009007

ALTERNATE TEXT:

Jeffrey M. Wooldridge. 2002. Introductory Econometrics: A modern Approach. Second edition. South-Western College Publishers. ISBN-10: 0324113641 ISBN-13: 978-0324113648

Week 8:

Banerjee, Abhijit et. al. Making Aid Work. The MIT Press. 2007. Duflo, Esther. Scaling Up and Evaluation. Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics, 2004. Easterly, William. Can the West Save Africa? Journal of Economic Literature, 2009.

Week 9:

Duflo, Esther, Rachel Glennerster, and Michael Kremer. Using Randomization in Development Economics Research: A Toolkit. Poverty Action Lab White Paper, MIT.

Schultz, T. Paul. School Subsidies for the Poor: Evaluating the Mexican Progresa Poverty Program. Journal of Development Economics. June 2004, 199-250. *Fisman, Raymond and Edward Miguel. “Chapter 8.” In Economic Gangsters. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2008.

Kling, Jeffrey, Jeffrey Liebman, and Lawrence Katz. Experimental Analysis of Neighborhood Effects. Econometrica, January 2007, 83-119. *Karlan, Dean and Jonathan Zinman. Credit Elasticities in Less Developed Countries: Implications for Microfinance. American Economic Review, forthcoming. Duflo Esther, Michael Kremer and Robinson J. How high are rates of return to fertilizer? Evidence from field experiments in Kenya. American Economic Review, May 2008, 482-488.

Week 10:

Kremer, Michael and Edward Miguel. Worms: Identifying Impacts on Education and Health in the Presence of Treatment Externalities. Econometrica. January 2004, 159-217. *Kremer, Michael and Edward Miguel. The Illusion of Sustainability. Quarterly Journal of Economics. August 2007, 1007-1065.

Dupas, Pascaline. Relative Risks and the Market for Sex: Teenage Pregnancy, HIV, and Partner Selection in Kenya. Working paper.

Week 11:

Unpublished results from follow-up on a girl’s merit scholarship program. For a description of the intervention, see Kremer, Michael et al. Incentives to Learn. NBER Working Paper #10971. 2004. Chay, Ken et al. The Central Role of Noise in Evaluating Interventions that Use Test Scores to Rank Schools. American Economic Review. September 2005, 1237-1258.

Olken, Benjamin. Monitoring Corruption: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia. Journal of Political Economy. April 2007, 200-249. Ferraz, Claudio and Frederico Finan. Exposing Corrupt Politicians: The Effects of Brazil’s Publicly Released Audits on Electoral Outcomes. Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 2008, 703-745..

Bjorkman, Martina and Jakob Svensson. Power to the People: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment of a Community-Based Monitoring Project in Uganda. Community-Based Monitoring of Primary Health Care PCEPR Working Paper # 6344. June 2007.

Week 12:

Jalan, Jyotsna and Martin Ravallion. Does Piped Water Reduce Diarrhea for Children in Rural India? Journal of Econometrics. January 2003, 153-173. Jalan, Jyotsna and Martin Ravallion. Estimating the Benefit Incidence of an Antipoverty Program by Propensity Score Matching. Journal of Business and Economic Statistics. January 2003, 19-30.

Baird, Sarah, Joan Hamory, and Edward Miguel. Tracking, Attrition and Data Quality in the Kenya Life Panel Survey Round 1. Working paper.

Week 13:

Bleakley, Hoyt. Malaria Eradication in the Americas: A Retrospective Analysis of Childhood Exposure. Working paper. Besley, Timothy and Robin Burgess. Land Reform, Poverty Reduction, and Growth: Evidence from India. Quarterly Journal of Economics. May 2000, 389-430.

Data exercise based on the Kenya Rural Water Project. Excel sheet with calculations yet to be completed Excel sheet with calculations completed