B026833 - JOINT SEMINAR FLORENCE-GOETTINGEN

English

This is a seminar-course to be held jointly by professor Gianna Claudia Giannelli of the University of Florence and by professor Krisztina Kis-Katos of the University of Goettingen. The seminar will be focused on two key strands of the current economic literature: “Gender and Development” and “Migration and Development”.

The seminar will be based on selected papers.
The seminal papers for the main topics are:
Duflo, E. (2012) Women empowerment and economic development. Journal of Economic Literature, 50(4), 1051-79.
Ruyssen, I., Salomone, S. Female migration: a way out of discrimination?. Journal of Development Economics, 2018, 130: 224-241.
Clemens, M. A. (2011) Economics and emigration: Trillion-dollar bills on the sidewalk? Journal of Economic Perspectives, 25(3): 83-106.
Yang, D. (2011) Migrant remittances. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 25(3): 129–151.
Suggested literature on empirical methods:
Angrist, J. D., & Pischke, J. S. (2008) Mostly harmless econometrics: An empiricist's companion. Princeton University Press.

The purpose of the seminar is 1) to provide the theoretical background and the applied tools to understand the economics of gender and the economics of migration; 2) apply this knowledge to the investigation of the most relevant issues in the two strands of literature for developing countries. At the end of the seminar students are expected to be able to interpret economic phenomena referring to the theory and evidence provided on gender issues and migration in developing countries.

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The seminar will be structured as follows: the professors will present the topics, and give some selected reference material. The seminar will involve the active participation of students with general discussions during the classes. A background reading list will be available online before the start of the course, while other reference material will be provided during the course.

Two short (5 pages each) written essays, one on gender and the other one on migration. Each student will choose the topic during the seminar and hand in the written essays on the day of the exam. Each essay will be based on the reading of three papers and on the discussion developed during the seminar.

For each part 5 topics.
Gender and development:
1) fertility and labour force participation;
2) gender and productivity gap in agriculture;
3) the gender wage gap;
4) women empowerment in agriculture;
5) women and migration.
Migration and development:
6) determinants of migration decisions;
7) selection into migration;
8) impacts on receiving (and migrant) communities;
9) remittances and household outcomes;
10) migration and household decisions.
Three reference papers will be provided for each topic, and will be available on-line at the beginning of the term.