Call for Participation-Deadline: May 1, 2012

BREAD-Guanghua Summer School on Development Economics

June 20-24^th 2012

Guanghua School of Management, Peking University

General Description

Guanghua School of Management at Peking University and The Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD, //ipl.econ.duke.edu/bread/) will jointly organize the Summer School on Development Economics in 2012. The objective of the summer school is to provide young researchers (junior faculty members, post-docs, and advanced Ph.D. students) with a detailed overview of the key topics and empirical methods in development research. Participants will also have the opportunity to discuss their own research with leading economists. The China Economics Summer Institute will be taking place at the same time and all participants in the Summer School are welcome to participate.

Lectures

Abhijit Banerjee (MIT): Credit Markets

Chang-Tai Hsieh (University of Chicago): Productivity

Ted Miguel (UC Berkeley): Political Economy

Seema Jayachandran (Northwestern University): Education and Health

David Donaldson (MIT): Trade and Development

Selected projects by participants will be presented and discussed in the Summer School. All participants are required to submit either completed empirical papers on development issues or detailed proposals with conceptual and methodological problems to be explored. All participants are asked to stay for the entire duration of the Summer School, read the assigned readings, and be prepared to discuss their research.

Application and Deadlines