I will be on research leave for the academic year 2011-2012. For any questions, please contact the relevant paper coordinator.

Teaching for the PhD programme in Economics
 

PhD15. How To Do Economics? (Michaelmas term 2010, weeks 1-4)

Course Outline and Essential Reading

Lecture 1. How do Great Ideas become Great Papers?

Lecture 2. The Components of an Article or Dissertation

Lecture 3. Economical Writing

Lecture 4. How to Present and Publish your Research?
 

Teaching for the MPhil in Modern South Asian Studies
 

Option (ii) Modern Indian Society: Politics, Development and Ecology (Michaelmas term 2010, weeks 1, 4 and 6)

Lecture 1. Introduction (2 hours)

Lecture 2. Demography (2 hours)

Lecture 3. Human Capital (2 hours)
 

Teaching for the Cambridge Economics Tripos
 

Part I, Paper 4.  Political and Sociological Aspects of Economics

Analysis of Economic Development (Lent term 2011, weeks 1-8)

Course Outline (includes essential reading and suggested supervision questions)

Lecture 1. Analysis of Economic Development

Lecture 2. Analysis of Population

Lecture 3. Analysis of Human Capital

Lecture 4. Analysis of Agriculture

Lecture 5. Analysis of Finance

Lecture 6. Analysis of Trade and Globalization

Lecture 7. Analysis of Inequality

Lecture 8. Analysis of Social Capital, Religion, and Terrorism
 

Supervision Questions for Part I, Paper 4 (See also course outline above)

Supervision 1. Economic Development

Supervision 2. Human Capital

Supervision 3. The Lewis Model

Supervision 4. International Trade

Supervision 5. Social Capital
 

Part IIB, Paper 8. The Economics of Underdeveloped Countries

Demography and Development (Lent term 2011, weeks 1-6)

Course Outline (includes essential reading and suggested supervision questions)

Lecture 1.  Why do Economists want to Explain Demographic Behaviour? Transition Theory and the Malthusian Model

Lecture 2.  The 'Household Demand Approach' and its Applications

Lecture 3.  Externalities to Childbearing and Social Norms: the Demand for Children vs. the Supply of Family Planning

Lecture 4.  Social Interactions and Fertility Transitions
Paper on 'Social Interactions, Externalities and Fertility in Kenya'

Lecture 5.  Mortality and Missing Women
Paper on 'Missing Women and India's Religious Demography'

Lecture 6. Current Policy Debates about Demography  in Poor Countries
 

Supervision Questions for Part IIB, Paper 8 (See also course outline above)

Supervision 1. Population and Development

Supervision 2. Demography and Development
 

Part IIA, Paper 4. Economic Development

Supervision Topics Reading List for 2010-2011

Michaelmas Term 2010
Supervision 1. Development and Growth
Supervision 2. Human Capital
Supervision 3. Inequality

Lent Term 2011
Supervision 4. Political Economy and Public Goods
Supervision 5. Industrialization and Structural Transformation
Supervision 6. Land Reform, Property Rights and Contracts
Supervision 7. Trade
 

Easter Term 2011
Supervision 8.Savings
Supervision 9. Revision session: Preparing for Part IIA, Paper 4
 

Teaching for the Cambridge History Tripos

Part II, Paper 6. Population, Development, and Environment since 1750: Comparative History and Policy

Synopsis for lecture on 'The Demographic Transition in India 1750-2005'

Lecture. The Demographic Transition in India 1750-2005