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Ravi
Kanbur AEM
667/ECON 770 Spring 2008. Prerequisite: Basic first-year graduate courses in AEM or ECON, or equivalent with Instructor's permission. Class meets: Wednesdays 7-10 pm. Location: Warren Hall 361 This course is targeted to second-year and third-year graduate students who have done the basic first year courses and are now looking to develop Doctoral or Masters thesis topics. It is not a standard "lectures plus written test" course. The core of the course is independent reading and research leading to a term paper. All those registered for the course will be required to do the term paper. In close interaction with me, each student will define and develop a specific topic, do a literature search and critical review, highlight some open questions for research and, hopefully, make some headway on one or more of these questions. The term paper is expected to be around 30 pages double space, all-inclusive, in length. There will be a presentation of the term paper to the class towards the end of the semester. The overall plan for the semester is as follows. During the first three weeks I will lecture on topics of interest to me, suggesting ideas for research and literatures for review. Papers covered in the lectures will be distributed in class. During the last three weeks of the semester students will make presentations based on the term papers. In between, students will work independently on the papers, with frequent and structured interaction with me, requiring the submission of different drafts of the term paper. Office hours, during which students will come and discuss their work with me, form an important part of this course. Students are asked to contact my assistant Sue Snyder (sms237@cornell.edu, x48856) to fix up appointments. The general topic on which term papers are invited this semester is Labor Economics and Development. This is to be interepreted broadly, covering classical labor issues as well as income distribution, poverty, and household economics including gender. I am also willing to discuss with students topics that might fall outside this spread. The papers I will cover during my lectures include the following, and students are invited to look at them to get an idea of the content and coverage of the course: www.arts.cornell.edu/poverty/kanbur/GrowthCommissionPaper.pdf They
should also look at the papers presented at the following conference,
organized by Ravi Kanbur and Jan Svejnar: http://www.arts.cornell.edu/poverty/kanbur/CornellMichiganLaborConf.pdf
The Time Table for the semester is as follows. 1/23
Lecture 7pm-10pm 1/30
Office Hours 10am-6pm; Lecture 7pm-10pm 2/6
Office Hours 10am-6pm; Lecture 7pm-10pm 2/13
Office Hours 10am-6pm; Lecture 7 pm-10 pm 2/18 Deadline for submission of 10 page outline 2/20
Office Hours 10am-6pm 3/5
Office Hours 10am-6pm 3/10 Deadline for Submission of 20 page draft 3/12
Office Hours 10am-6pm 3/26
Office Hours 10am-6pm 4/2
Office Hours 10am-6pm 4/14 Deadline for submission of 30 page draft. NO EXCEPTIONS. 4/16
Office Hours 10am-6pm; Class Presentations 7pm-10 pm 4/23
Office Hours 10am-6pm; Class Presentations 7pm-10 pm 4/30
Office Hours 10am-6pm; Class Presentations 7pm-10 pm 5/2 6pm. Deadline for final submission of term paper. NO EXCEPTIONS. HALF GRADE PENALTY FOR EACH DAY OF DELAY. |