What Is Considered Development Economics? Commonalities and Differences in University Courses around the Developing World

We use a combination of surveys of instructors and data from course syllabi to examine how the subject of development economics is taught at the undergraduate and Master’s level in over 200 courses in 56 developing countries and the United States. We find there is considerable heterogeneity in what...

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Main Authors:	McKenzie, David, Paffhausen, Anna Luisa
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank 2019
Subjects:	GROWTH THEORY INEQUALITY POVERTY HUMAN CAPITAL INSTITUTIONS EMPLOYMENT DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION RESEARCH SYLLABI UNIVERSITIES TERTIARY EDUCATION
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31468

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spelling	okr-10986-314682021-05-25T10:54:37Z What Is Considered Development Economics? Commonalities and Differences in University Courses around the Developing World McKenzie, David Paffhausen, Anna Luisa GROWTH THEORY INEQUALITY POVERTY HUMAN CAPITAL INSTITUTIONS EMPLOYMENT DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION RESEARCH SYLLABI UNIVERSITIES TERTIARY EDUCATION We use a combination of surveys of instructors and data from course syllabi to examine how the subject of development economics is taught at the undergraduate and Master’s level in over 200 courses in 56 developing countries and the United States. We find there is considerable heterogeneity in what is considered development economics: there is a narrow core of topics (growth theory, poverty and inequality, human capital, and institutions) taught in at least half the classes and large variation in the role of theory versus empirics. Employing clustering techniques, we find four views of development: a theoretical macro-based approach; an empirical micro-based approach; a mixed approach narrowly focused on these common core topics; and an expansive approach covering a much broader range of topics. We find country, course, and instructor characteristics are all associated with these differences in how development economics is conceptualized. 2019-04-01T16:05:30Z 2019-04-01T16:05:30Z 2017-10-01 Journal Article World Bank Economic Review 1564-698X http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31468 CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank Publications & Research :: Journal Article Publications & Research
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topic	GROWTH THEORY INEQUALITY POVERTY HUMAN CAPITAL INSTITUTIONS EMPLOYMENT DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION RESEARCH SYLLABI UNIVERSITIES TERTIARY EDUCATION
spellingShingle	GROWTH THEORY INEQUALITY POVERTY HUMAN CAPITAL INSTITUTIONS EMPLOYMENT DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION RESEARCH SYLLABI UNIVERSITIES TERTIARY EDUCATION McKenzie, David Paffhausen, Anna Luisa What Is Considered Development Economics? Commonalities and Differences in University Courses around the Developing World
description	We use a combination of surveys of instructors and data from course syllabi to examine how the subject of development economics is taught at the undergraduate and Master’s level in over 200 courses in 56 developing countries and the United States. We find there is considerable heterogeneity in what is considered development economics: there is a narrow core of topics (growth theory, poverty and inequality, human capital, and institutions) taught in at least half the classes and large variation in the role of theory versus empirics. Employing clustering techniques, we find four views of development: a theoretical macro-based approach; an empirical micro-based approach; a mixed approach narrowly focused on these common core topics; and an expansive approach covering a much broader range of topics. We find country, course, and instructor characteristics are all associated with these differences in how development economics is conceptualized.
format	Journal Article
author	McKenzie, David Paffhausen, Anna Luisa
author_facet	McKenzie, David Paffhausen, Anna Luisa
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title	What Is Considered Development Economics? Commonalities and Differences in University Courses around the Developing World
title_short	What Is Considered Development Economics? Commonalities and Differences in University Courses around the Developing World
title_full	What Is Considered Development Economics? Commonalities and Differences in University Courses around the Developing World
title_fullStr	What Is Considered Development Economics? Commonalities and Differences in University Courses around the Developing World
title_full_unstemmed	What Is Considered Development Economics? Commonalities and Differences in University Courses around the Developing World
title_sort	what is considered development economics? commonalities and differences in university courses around the developing world
publisher	Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank
publishDate	2019
url	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31468
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What Is Considered Development Economics? Commonalities and Differences in University Courses around the Developing World

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