AREC847

Prerequisite: AREC624, AREC623, and ECON603; and students who have taken courses with comparable content may contact the department. This class will focus on networks, learning from others, and peer effects and the role ofeach in human capital accumulation, technology adoption and behavior. The material isfocused on applications of education, health agriculture and entrepreneurship in developingcountries, but will draw heavily from literatures on these effects in developed countries aswell. The class will cover the theory of networks and learning but its primary focus will beon the empirical difficulty of identifying these effects and establishing causality.