東京大学政策評価研究教育センター

Title CREPE Lecture Series: Mini course on child development and human capital production functions
Date 2018年3月6日(火)、3月8日(木)両日とも13:00-16:40
13:00-16:40, March 6 and 8, 2018
Venue 東京大学経済学研究科・経済学研究棟3階・第2教室にて開催 [地図]
Lecture Room No. 2, Economics Research Building, University of Tokyo [MAP]
Lecturer Costas Meghir (Yale Universtiy)
Abstract Understanding the process of human capital development and the way that interventions can affect outcomes is central to designing policies that can improve equal opportunity, reduce inequality and prevent the intergenerational transmission of poverty. To study this problem we the economist needs a large toolkit: we need to understand the nature of the human capital production function, how parents make decisions on child investments and what they know and understand about the child production function and finally how interventions can affect outcomes. This short course will consist of three parts. First we will consider the estimation of Human capital production functions and we will consider some empirical results in this direction; second we will discuss dynamic economic models of parental investments and child outcomes; third we will discuss experimental evidence on interventions in Early Childhoode development.

Lecture 1: Early Childhood Development Interventions and Randomized Control Trials.

Lecture 2 (Thursday): Estimating the Production function of Human Capital – Linear and Nonlinear Factor Models

Lecture 3 (Thursday): Empirical Application to child development in India

Lecture 4 (If there is time): Marriage Markets and Child Development – Some ideas.

Selected References
Information 講義は英語で行われます(Lecture in English)