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(5/8) PSE Summer School 2021: discover the “Development - Inequality, social interactions, and institutional dynamics” program

The Paris School of Economics Summer School offers research-oriented teaching by leading experts in their fields. Since 2016, it has brought together in Paris over 630 participants, representing 68 nationalities, from all over the world. This year, 8 programs are offered, on various subjects. Entirely in English, they are aimed at professionals, researchers, and graduate students (Masters and PhD) notably in Economics, in Social Sciences and in Finance.

The “Development - Inequality, social interactions, and institutional dynamics” program states that institutions and social frictions (associated with inequalities, political conflicts, corruption, and cultural polarization) are central themes in development economics. The professors gets you up to speed with the existing academic literature and current debates. They will present leading theories, introduce different research methods, and take stock of the existing empirical evidence on inequality and institutional development.

  • Instructors: François Bourguignon, Oliver Vanden Eynde, Thierry Verdier and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya.
  • From June 14 to June 18, 2021.
  • This program is offered both online with interactive lectures in real time and, beyond, online office hours with professors to facilitate interactions and on site, on our parisian campus, taking into account the highest sanitary measures to protect the participants and professors.

To know everything about the Experimental Economics program, follow this link

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Are you curious about the other programs offered? Go to the landing page of the PSE Summer School 2021.