Este é um curso de leitura e discussão de artigos e análise de dados. Na primeira parte do curso, cada um dos tópicos será apresentado na forma de aulas expositivas baseada em textos de referência da literatura internacional seguidas por debates baseados na literatura empírica nacional a partir da sugestão de um ou dois textos de referência e pesquisas complementares realizadas pelos alunos. A segunda parte do curso será voltada para o conhecimento de bases de dados nacionais com informações relevantes para o tratamento empírico dos temas expostos.

1a. Parte – Literatura teórica e Empírica
1) Introdução
2) Instituições e desenvolvimento econômico
3) Saúde e Desenvolvimento econômico
4) Educação e Desenvolvimento econômico
5) Condições Iniciais e Desenvolvimento
6) O papel das pais e crenças sobre o desenvolvimento infantil
7) Infraestrutura e desenvolvimento econômico
8) Políticas Públicas de Transferência de Renda e desenvolvimento
9) Crédito e desenvolvimento econômico
10) Desenvolvimento Financeiro
2a. Parte – Aprendendo sobre as bases de dados do Brasil

Ray, Debraj. Development Economics. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998
Ray, Debraj. What's New In Development Economics? The American Economist 44, 3-16 (2000).
Ray, Debraj. “Uneven growth: A framework for research in develpment economics. Journal of Economic Perspectives 24, 45-60 (2010).
Chein, Flávia; Mauro B. Lemos e Juliano J. Assunção. Desenvolvimento Desigual: evidências para o Brasil. Revista Brasileira de Economia. vol. 61, no.3. Rio de Janeiro, July/Sept. 2007
Acemoglu, D., Johnson, S., Robinson, J. Reversal of fortune: geography and institution in the making of the modern world income distribution. Quarterly Journal of Economics. v.117, n.4, p.1231-1294, Nov. 2002.
Acemoglu, D., Johnson, S., Robinson, J. Institutions as the fundamental cause of long-run growth. Preparado para o Handbook of Economic Growth. Philippe Aghion e Steve Durlauf (org.), 2004.
Acemoglu, D., Johnson, S., Robinson, J. The colonial origins of comparative development: an empirical investigation. American Economic Review. 2001, v. 91(5,Dec), 1369-1401.
Naritomi, Joana & Soares, Rodrigo R. & Assunção, Juliano J. "Institutional Development and Colonial Heritage within Brazil," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 72(02), pages 393-422, June, 2012.
Glaeser, E.; La Porta, Rafael; Lopez-de-Silanes, Florêncio; Shleifer, Andrei. Do institutions cause growth? Journal of Economic Growth. 9, 271-303. 2004.
Naritomi, Joana. Herança colonial, instituições & desenvolvimento: um estudo sobre a desigualdade entre os municípios brasileiros. Dissertação de Mestrado. Departamento de Economia Puc-Rio, 2007.
Sen, Amartya. Why health equity? Health Economics. 11: 659–666 (2002)
HALL, T. Why plan human resources for health. Human Resources for Health Development Journal. 1998; 2(2):77-86.
Cutler, D.; Miller, G. The role of public health improvements in health advances: the 20th century United States. Demography, Chicago, v. 42, n. 1, p. 1-22, Feb. 2005.
Romero Rocha & Rodrigo R. Soares. "Evaluating the impact of community-based health interventions: evidence from Brazil's Family Health Program," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 19(S1), pages 126-158, September, 2010.
Baala, Peter H. e Albert Wong. Time to death and the forecasting of macro-level health care expenditures: some further considerations. Journal of Health Economics. 31 p. 876– 887. 2012.
Maia, A. C. ; Andrade, M. V. ; Chein, Flávia . Estudo Longitudinal do Efeito da Idade e Tempo até a Morte em Gastos com Saúde. São Paulo: REAP - Rede de Economia Aplicada, 2012 (mimeo).
Andrade, Vitor ; Chein, Flávia Comportamento de Risco e Gastos com Sau´de: Uma ana´lise dos gastos out-of-pocket no Brasil. 43° ENCONTRO NACIONAL DE ECONOMIA In: https://www.anpec.org.br/encontro/2015/submissao/files_I/i123681a707f9b3f738cdf96f0ea289e605.pdf
Waltenberg, F. D. e Vandenberghe, V. What does it Take to Achieve Equality of Opportunity in Education? An Empirical Investigation Based on Brazilian Data. Economics of Education Review 26, 710-724. 2006
Cunha, F. e Heckman, J. The Technology of Skill Formation. American Economic Review, 97(2): 31–47. 2007
Cunha, F. e Heckman, J. The Economics and Psychology of Inequality and Human Development. NBER Working Paper n. 14695. 2009
Cunha, F., Heckman, J., Lochner, L., e Dimitriy, V. M. (2005). Interpreting the Evidence on Life Cycle Skill Formation. In National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. Cohen, G. A. (1989). On the Currency of Egalitarian Justice. Ethics 99: 906–44.
Foguel, M. N. e Veloso, F. (2010). Inequality of Opportunity of Daycare and Preschool Services in Brazil. Anais do 38° Encontro Nacional de Economia.
Alunos escolherão textos em periódicos nacionais ou internacionais sobre o tema e apresentarão em sala de aula
BEHRMAN, J. R. The impact of health and nutrition on education. The World Bank Research Observer, v. 11, n. 1, p. 23-37, 1996.
BEHRMAN, J. R.; ROSENZWEIG, Mark R. Parental allocations to children: New evidence on bequest differences among siblings. Review of Economics and Statistics, v. 86, n. 2, p. 637-640, 2004.
BLACK, Sandra E.; DEVEREUX, Paul J.; SALVANES, Kjell G. From the cradle to the labor market? The effect of birth weight on adult outcomes. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, v. 122, n. 1, p. 409-439, 2007.
BLEAKLEY, Hoyt. Health, human capital, and development. Annual review of economics, v. 2, p. 283, 2010.
ALMOND, D. e Janet Currie. Human capital development before age five. NBER Working paper series 15827. Cambridge, 2010
Bairoch, P. Cities and economic development: from the down of history to the present. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago, 1988. 574p.
Baum-Snow, Nathaniel. Did Highways cause suburbanization? The Quarterly Journal of Economics. v. 122, n. 2, p. 775-805, May 2007.
Michaels, Guy. The Effect of Trade on the Demand for Skill – Evidence from the Interstate Highway System. Review of Economics and Statistics. Vol. 90, No. 4, p; 683–701, Nov. 2008.
Michaels, Guy; Fernand Rauch and Stephen J. Redding. Urbanization and structural transformation. CEP Discussion Paper no. 892. October 2008.
Chein, Flávia ; Assunção, J. J. . How does emigration affect labor markets: evidence from road construction in Brazil. Brazilian Review of Econometrics 36(2) November 2016
Chein, Flávia; Assunção, Juliano J. ; Lemos, Mauro Borges. Custos de transporte e urbanização: evidências a partir da criação de cidades. Revista Brasileira de Economia (Impresso), v. 63, p. 249-275, 2009.
Saez, Emmanuel (2002). Optimal income transfer programs: intensive versus extensive labor supply responses. The Quarterly Journal of Economics. 177, vol. 3. p. 1039-1073.
Ravaillon, Martin. Targeted Transfers in Poor Countries: Revisiting the Trade-Offs and Policy Options. World Bank (mimeo).
Chioda, Laura & de Mello, João M. P. & Soares, Rodrigo R.. "Spillovers from Conditional Cash Transfer Programs: Bolsa Família and Crime in Urban Brazil," IZA Discussion Papers 6371, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). 2012.
Gruber, Jonathan. Social Security and Retirement. Review of Economics and Statistics (also available as NBER Working Paper #7830, August 2000) (with Courtney Coile)
Gruber, Jonathan. Social Security and Elderly Living Arrangements. forthcoming, Journal of Human Resources (also available as NBER Working Paper #8911, April 2002) (with Gary Engelhardt and Cindy Perry).
Banerjee, A.; E. Duflo and K. Munshi (2003) “The (mis)-allocation of capital” Journal of the European Economic Association, 1(2-3): 484-494.
Evans, David S. e JOVANOVIC, Boyan (1989). “An Estimated Model of Entrepreneurial Choice under Liquidity Constraints”. Journal of Political Economy, Volume 97, No. 4, p. 808-827.
Ghosh, P.; Mookherjee and Ray, D. (2000) “Credit rationing in developing countries: an overview of the theory”, chapter 11 in Readings in the Theory of Economic Development, edited by D. Mookherjee and D. Ray, London: Blackwell, pp. 383-401.
Ray, Debraj. Development Economics. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. (Cap. 14).
Petrova, K. Part-time entrepreneurship and financial constraints: evidence from the Panel Study of Entrepreneurial Dynamics. Small Business Economics. No prelo, 2012.
Hurst, E.; Lusardi, A. Liquidity Constraints, Household Wealth, and Entrepreneurship. Journal of Political Economy. Vol. 112,
Brandão, R. C. ; Chein, Flávia . Racionamento de crédito, empreendedorismo e a busca por múltiplas ocupações 2012 (mimeo).
Chein, Flávia ; SILVA, U. M. C. V. Imperfeições no mercado de crédito e racionamento de crédito: Uma análise para o setor informal no Brasil. Nova Economia (UFMG. Impresso), 2013.
9) Desenvolvimento Financeiro e Crescimento Econômico
Freixas, Xavier & Rochet, Jean-Charles. Microeconomics of Banking. 2nd edition. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2008. (Introdução e Cap. 6).
Lloyd-Ellis, H. e Bernhardt, D. Enterprise, inequality and economic development. Review of Economic Studies, 67(1):147--168, 2000.
Alem, Mauro e Townsend, Robert M. An evaluation of financial institutions: impact on consumption and investment using Panel data and the theory of risk bearing. Mimeo. 2010
Debate: 15/10/2018
Kumar, Anjali (org) Brasil: acesso a serviços financeiros. Ipea: Rio de Janeiro, nov. 2004. http://www.ipea.gov.br/sites/000/2/livros/BrasilAcessoAosServicosFinanceiros.pdf
Cunha, Flavio; Elo, Irma; Culhane, Jennifer, (2013): Eliciting maternal beliefs about the technology of skill formation. NBER Working Paper, n. 19144.
Boneva, Teodora & Rauh, Christopher, 2016. "Parental Beliefs About Returns to Educational Investments - The Later the Better?," Annual Conference 2016 (Augsburg): Demographic Change 145610, Verein für Socialpolitik / German Economic Association.
Attanasio, Orazio P. e Katja M. Kaufmann (2009): Educational Choices, Subjective Expectations, and Credit Constraints, NBER Working Paper 15087.
Bradley, Robert H., e Bettye M. Caldwell (1984): The Relation of Infants’ Home Environments to Achievement Test Performance in First Grade: A Follow-Up Study, Child Development, Vol. 55(3): 803–809.

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