MIT 14.771 Development Economics, Fall 2021
Instructor: Esther Duflo

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Part 1 of 2 of Poverty Traps. The first half discusses the Dasgupta and Ray (1986) model of nutrition-based poverty traps. The second half discusses how to use evidence to test for a poverty trap, focusing on evidence for a nutrition-based poverty trap.


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Speakers: Esther Duflo