Courses

Economics 325: Economic Growth and Development (Winter 2009).

Economics 425: Theory of Economic Development (Winter 2009).

Economics 425: Theory of Development (Spring 2008).

Advice

Here are some links with advice for graduate students:

• The Job Market. Collected advice of a cohort of Chicago students for the academic job market. This is from 2000, but much of it still applies.
• Writing Tips for Ph.D. Students from John Cochrane.
• Tips on How to Avoid Disaster in Presentations from Monika Piazzesi. Very sensible!
• How to Publish in Top Journals by Kwan Choi. Also contains some good advice about refereeing, professional etiquette etc.
• How to Access Standard Data Sources by Claudia Olivetti, Dan Silverman, and Jay Hong.

Textbook

Click here to access the manuscript for an undergraduate textbook on macroeconomics that I wrote with Andrew Sellgren and Andreas Lehnert.

Econ 325: Economic Growth and Development

Course home page for Winter 2009.

Econ 425: Theory of Economic Development

Course home page for Winter 2009.

Econ 425: Theory of Economic Development

Reading List (Spring 2008)
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