Benjamin Olken - MIT
1. Introduction:Â Why Study Political Economy & Development
1. Political Economy & Economic Development.pdf0. Introduction to Stata.pdf2. The Role of Leaders & Democratic Institutions
2. Leaders & Democratic Institutions.pdf1. Linear Regression Models & The Wald Estimator.pdf3. The Deep Determinants of Economic Development: Macro Evidence
4. The Deep Determinants of Economic Development-Macro Evidence.pdf4. The Deep Determinants of Economic Development: Micro Evidence
5. The Deep Determinants of Economic Development-Micro Evidence.pdf5. Reading
6. The Median Voter Theorem I
6. The Median Voter Theorem.pdf2. Fixed Effcts & Regression Discontinuity.pdf7. The Median Voter Theorem II
8. Voting in Practice: Citizen Candidate Models, Politician Identity & The Failure of Median Voter Theorem
7. Voting in Practice.pdf9. Voting in Practice: Agency Models I
8. Selection, Moral Hazard, and Voting.pdf3. Moral Hazard.pdf10. Voting in Practice: Agency Models II
11. Voting in Practice: Vote Buying & Voter Intimidation
4. Deep Determinants of Economic Development.pdf12. Sometimes it Gets Complicated: Condorcet's Paradox & Arrow's Impossibility Theorem
10. Sometimes it Gets Complicated-Condorcet's Paradox and Arrow's Impossibility Theorem.pdf13. Midterm
14. Good vs Bad Dictatorships
14. Dictatorships.pdf5. Models of Participation.pdf15. Commitment Problems in Dictatorship
16. The Logic of Collective Action
16. Collective Action I.pdf17. Ethnic Heterogeneity & Contributions to Public Goods
Collective Action II.pdf6. Relationships between Regime Type & Economic Outcomes.pdf18. Monitoring & Collective Action Problems
19. Recovery from Civil War: Special
19. Conflict Lecture I.pdf7. The Free Rider & Social Norm & Social Pressure.pdf20. Why do Wars Happen?
21. Civil War
8. Introduction to Game Theory.pdf22. Is Corruption Inefficient?
22. Corruption Lecture I.pdf23. The Corrupt Official's Decision Problem: Balancing Risks, Rents & Incentives
23. Corruption Lecture II.pdf9. Measurement of Corruption & Corrupt People.pdf24. The Industrial Organisation of Corruption
24. Corruption Lecture III.pdf25. Politicians & Firms
25. Corruption Lecture IV.pdfReview Session for Final Exam & Theory Problem.pdf26. Wrap Up