Tag: economics
Banerjee & Duflo: 14.73 Lecture 09 — Education: Setting the Stage
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Prof. Esther Duflo covers the themes portrayed in the film Educating Yaparak and examines education through the lens of economics. Recorded 2011.
Banerjee & Duflo: 14.73 Lecture 12 — (Somewhat) Un-Orthodox Findings on the Family
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Prof. Esther Duflo discusses what drives fertility decisions. Topics include family planning, population growth, quality-quantity trade off, and China's one-child policy, among other topics. Recorded 2011.
Banerjee & Duflo: 14.73 Lecture 13 — How Do Families Decide?
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Prof. Esther Duflo continues the discussion from lecture 12, and also includes material on how families make decisions about family planning. Recorded 2011.
Banerjee & Duflo: 14.73 Lecture 02 — What is a Poverty Trap?
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Prof. Esther Duflo provides an introduction to the idea of poverty traps. Recorded 2011.
Banerjee & Duflo: 14.73 Lecture 26 — Five Thoughts in Place of a Sweeping Conclusion
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Five Thoughts in Place of a Sweeping Conclusion. Prof. Abhijit Banerjee provides some final thoughts to conclude the course on the challenges of world poverty. Recorded 2011.
Banerjee & Duflo: 14.73 Lecture 24 — Policies, Politics: Can Evidence Play a Role… Part 1
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Policies, Politics: Can Evidence Play a Role in the Fight Against Poverty? (Part 1). Prof. Abhijit Banerjee discusses theories and policies developed to help fight poverty. Recorded 2011.
Banerjee & Duflo: 14.73 Lecture 10 — Is It Possible to Deliver Quality Education to the Poor…
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Is it possible to Deliver Quality Education to the Poor: The Pratham-JPAL Partnership. Prof. Esther Duflo's lecture discusses various experiments and interventions in education, specifically in India. The work of the ...
Banerjee & Duflo: 14.73 Lecture 05 — Is There a Nutrition-Based Poverty Trap?
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In this lecture, Prof. Esther Duflo covers malnutriton and the nutrition-based poverty trap, including the relationship between productivity and nutrition. Recorded 2011.
Banerjee & Duflo: 14.73 Lecture 17 — The (Not So Simple) Economics of Lending to the Poor
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Prof. Esther Duflo covers credit and lending to the world's poor. Recorded 2011.
Banerjee & Duflo: 14.73 Lecture 01 — Introduction
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Prof. Abhijit Banerjee provides an introduction to the study of global poverty. The class dicusses the challenges of world poverty. Recorded 2011.
