ECON 348
Human Capital and Development
Last Offered Spring 2023
Division II
Cross-listed
This course is not offered in the current catalog

Class Details

Children around the world face unequal opportunities to attend school, and to learn. This course will introduce students to economic studies of education, focusing on pre-school through high school. The course will mainly cover research in low-income and middle-income countries, but will also discuss connections to policy debates in the United States and elsewhere. Topics will include the importance of early-life conditions and investments; the connections between health and education; the roles of information, incentives, inputs, and technology; research methods; and decisions between policy options. Students in this course will analyze data themselves, and will critically read published research.
The Class: Format: lecture
Limit: 20
Expected: 20
Class#: 3692
Grading: yes pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: Grades are principally based on readings questions, problem sets, two in-class exams, and short presentations by students.
Prerequisites: ECON 255, POEC 253, STAT 346, or permission of the instructor. CDE Fellows should have taken ECON 502 or 503.
Enrollment Preferences: Economics majors and CDE Fellows
Distributions: Division II
Notes: This course is cross-listed and the prefixes carry the following divisional credit:
ECON 348 Division II ECON 548 Division II
Attributes: GBST Economic Development Studies
POEC Comparative POEC/Public Policy Courses

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