This paper uses a combination of survey questions to instructors and data collected from course syllabi and examinations to examine how the subject of development economics is taught at the undergraduate and masters levels in developing countries, and benchmark this against undergraduate classes...

The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic arrived in Brazil while the poorest forty percent of the population was still recovering from the 2014-2016 crisis. After boosting Latin America's reduction in poverty and inequality for the previous decade, Brazil's 2014-2016 crisis and recovery are a stark...

This paper uses a combination of survey questions to instructors and data collected from course syllabi and examinations to examine how the subject of development economics is taught at the undergraduate and masters levels in developing countries, and benchmark this against undergraduate classes...

The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic arrived in Brazil while the poorest forty percent of the population was still recovering from the 2014-2016 crisis. After boosting Latin America’s reduction in poverty and inequality for the previous decade, Brazil’s 2014-2016 crisis and recovery are a...

This paper uses a combination of survey questions to instructors and data collected from course syllabi and examinations to examine how the subject of development economics is taught at the undergraduate and masters levels in developing countries, and benchmark this against undergraduate classes...

There is a well-known debate about the roles of geography versus institutions in explaining the long-term development of countries. These debates have usually been based on cross-country regressions where questions about parameter heterogeneity, unobserved heterogeneity, and endogeneity cannot...

There is a well-known debate about the role of institutions in explaining the long-term development of countries. We believe there is value-added to consider the institutions hypothesis at the micro level within a country to analyze the exact transmission channels linking endogenous...

There is a well-known debate about the roles of geography versus institutions in explaining the long-term development of countries. These debates have usually been based on cross-country regressions where questions about parameter heterogeneity, unobserved heterogeneity, and endogeneity cannot...