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MIT 14.771 Development Economics, Fall 2021
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Lecture 2: Poverty Traps: Theory
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Description: 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.
Session 2 lecture slides (PDF - 1.0MB)
Instructor: Esther Duflo