MIT OpenCourseWare
Foundations of Development Policy
- Instructor
- Prof. Esther Duflo
- Term
- Spring 2009
- Level
- Undergraduate
- What's inside
- 6 problem sets · 1 solution · 1 lecture note · 1 reading · 20 other files · 3 web pages
- Materials open
- MIT OCW
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 14.74 Foundations of Development Policy, Spring 2009, Prof. Esther Duflo — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: none is claimed; materials are grouped by MIT's own sections. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
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Before you start
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How this course was organized
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Materials by section
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Lecture Notes
16 files
- Institutions (2): Is Parochial Politics a Fatality? Download
- Lecture 5: The Determinants of Educational Choice Download
- Lecture 6: The effect of school buildings on schooling: A "natural experiment" Download
- Lecture 14: Savings: How Villagers Deal with Risk Download
- Challenges of Development: How do the poor live? Download
- Nutrition and productivity Download
- Nutrition and productivity: interrelationships Download
- Income and Nutrition: Interrelationship Download
- Case- Using Evaluations to Diagnose the Problem and Design Policy Solutions: Health and Healthcare in Rajasthan Download
- Health Download
- Missing Women: Gender Discrimination Download
- Inside the household: How are decisions made within the household? Download
- Land Download
- Savings Constraints Download
- Credit Download
- Colonial history, institutions and economic development Download
Assignments
MIT OpenCourseWare, Prof. Esther Duflo, 14.74 Foundations of Development Policy, Spring 2009.
License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · Edition: Spring 2009 · Open the original course on OCW ↗
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