Economics 213 - Economic Development

Fall
2018
01
4.00
Sarah Adelman
MW 09:30AM-10:45AM
Mount Holyoke College
104787
Clapp Laboratory 126
sadelman@mtholyoke.edu
A study of micro-economic development topics related to how households in lower-income countries consume and produce food. Topics include the causes and consequences of hunger and malnutrition, the agricultural household model, household-level food production and demand, intra-household allocation and bargaining, human and social capital investments and their impacts on food production and consumption, land rights and land use, child labor, and risk, credit and insurance markets used by agricultural households.
Prereq: ECON-110.
Permission is required for interchange registration during the add/drop period only.