Call for Participation-Deadline: May 1, 2012
June 20-24th 2012
Guanghua School of Management, Peking University
General Description
Guanghua School of Management at Peking University and The Bureau for Research and
Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD, http://ipl.econ.duke.edu/bread/) will
jointly organize the Summer School on Development Economics in 2012. The objective
of the summer school is to provide young researchers (junior faculty members, post-docs,
and advanced Ph.D. students) with a detailed overview of the key topics and empirical
methods in development research. Participants will also have the opportunity to discuss
their own research with leading economists. The China Economics Summer Institute will
be taking place at the same time and all participants in the Summer School are welcome
to participate.
Lectures
Abhijit Banerjee (MIT): Credit Markets
Chang-Tai Hsieh (University of Chicago): Productivity
Ted Miguel (UC Berkeley): Political Economy
Seema Jayachandran (Northwestern University): Education and Health
David Donaldson (MIT): Trade and Development
Selected projects by participants will be presented and discussed in the Summer School.
All participants are required to submit either completed empirical papers on development
issues or detailed proposals with conceptual and methodological problems to be explored.
All participants are asked to stay for the entire duration of the Summer School, read the
assigned readings, and be prepared to discuss their research.
Application and Deadlines
This call invites you to submit a CV, a research paper/proposal, and a reference letter. All
applications should be sent no later than 1 May 2012 to Moyan Zhao at
zhmy@gsm.pku.edu.cn. Admission decisions will be announced by May 15, 2012.
