Syllabi for CDE Courses
Required Reading: Getting Energy Prices Right: From Principle to Practice
An excerpt from this book has been assigned in “Public Economics,” a core course taught in the fall.
Read MoreRequired Reading: “Corruption and the Costs of Redistribution: Micro Evidence from Indonesia”
This article has been assigned as required reading for “Public Economics,” one of the core courses taught in the fall.
Read MoreCourse Text: Principles of Microeconomics
This book by Gregory Mankiw is one of the core texts used in recent years for CDE orientation, and is also a reference text for “Public Economics,” a core course taught in the fall.
Read MoreCourse Text: Public Finance and Public Policy
This is a required course text for the CDE core course “Public Economics.”
Read MoreCourse Text: Real Econometrics
This book has been used as the primary course text for ECON 502, Econometrics, taught by Prof. Swamy. ECON 502 is a core CDE course.
Read MoreCourse Text: “Scaling Up What Works: Evidence on External Validity in Kenyan Education”
This article has been assigned as required reading in Program Evaluation, a spring CDE elective.
Read MoreCourse Text: “School Governance, Teacher Incentives and Pupil-Teacher Ratios: Experimental Evidence from Kenyan Primary Schools”
This article has been listed as required reading for practice in evaluating randomized evaluations for Program Evaluation, a spring elective at the CDE.
Read MoreCourse Text: “The Effects of “Girl-Friendly” Schools: Evidence from the BRIGHT School Construction Program in Burkina Faso”
This article has been assigned as required reading in the spring CDE elective, Program Evaluation.
Read MoreCourse Text: “Dams”
This text has been assigned as required reading for the spring CDE elective, Program Evaluation.
Read MoreCourse Text: “Does a Ban on Informal Health Providers Save Lives? Evidence from Malawi”
This article, written by Prof. Godlonton and co-author Edward Okeke, is a required reading in the CDE spring elective, Program Evaluation.
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