ECON 7250 — International Economic Development
4 semester hoursGraduateLectureusually offered: springtypical days: T/FBostonTraditional
Covers leading research topics in development economics, with a particular focus on patterns of global inequality and globalization, effects of trade policy on labor market adjustment, gender and development, education and health, long-term effects of institutions, commodity price dynamics, and Dutch disease. Course objectives include exploring the cutting-edge literature emerging on these topics and improving understanding of the most recent empirical methods used in the literature. Offers students an opportunity to learn how to apply econometric techniques to particular research questions while evaluating advantages and disadvantages of using different approaches and to demonstrate understanding of difference-in-differences analysis, instrumental variables, randomized evaluation, regression discontinuity, and structural vector autoregressive models. Students critically assess the limitations of these methods.
Offering history
| Term | Sections | Enrolled | Capacity | Full | Open seats/section |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spring 2024 | 1 | 11 | 20 | 55% | 9.0 |
| Spring 2025 | 1 | 13 | 20 | 65% | 7.0 |
Snapshots from scheduled scrapes — not live seat availability. "Full" can exceed 100% when sections over-enroll.
Meeting times
Share of recent sections by weekday: M 0% · T 54% · W 0% · Th 46% · F 54%
Common patterns: TF (54% of sections), R (46% of sections) — in patterns, R means Thursday
Professors
Spring
- Bilge Erten (100% of students) · reviews
Percentages are each professor's average share of the season's enrolled students in recent terms.
Links
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