Week I: Background
- Readings:
- Part I of Hessler, Peter. Country Driving. New York: HarperCollins, 2010.
— look particularly for issues of geography and empire
— short paper on Part I due Monday
- Part I of Hessler, Peter. Country Driving. New York: HarperCollins, 2010.
- Blog topics:
- Hypergamy: Han, Hongyun. “Trends in Educational Assortative Marriage in China from 1970 to 2000.” Demographic Research 22 (April 27, 2010): 733–70. doi:10.4054/DemRes.2010.22.24.
— Do women marry up? Has that changed over time? - Territorial Disputes: Senkaku Islands, Paracels, Nine-dotted lines
- Wars with neighbors: Sino-Indian War, Sino-Vietnam War, Sino-Soviet Conflict
- Hypergamy: Han, Hongyun. “Trends in Educational Assortative Marriage in China from 1970 to 2000.” Demographic Research 22 (April 27, 2010): 733–70. doi:10.4054/DemRes.2010.22.24.
Week II: Growth Models
- Readings:
- Class Notes:
— see any intermediate macro or development economics text - Papers applying Solow to China:
— Bosworth, Barry P., and Susan M. Collins. “Accounting for Growth: Comparing China and India.” NBER, February 2007. 5005.— Song, Zheng, Kjetil Storesletten, & Fabrizio Zilibotti. “Growing Like China.” American Economic Review 101:1 (Feb 2011): 196–233. doi:10.1257/aer.101.1.196.— Wu, Harry. “Accounting for China’s Growth in 1952-2008: China’s Growth Performance Debate Revisited with a Newly Constructed Data Set.” Discussion paper 11-E-003. Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI), January 2011. http://econpapers.repec.org/paper/etidpaper/11003.htm.
- Class Notes:
- Blog Topics:
- Growth models, MSExcel: discuss output from spreadsheet versions of Solow
- Growth models, applied: discuss one or more of the above papers (Bosworth & Collins is the least technical)
- Demographics: provide an overview of China as relevant for growth