14.74 | Spring 2009 | Undergraduate

Foundations of Development Policy

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Lecture 14: Savings: How Villagers Deal with Risk

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Lecture notes on how how villagers deal with risk, savings, a simple model of certainty, uncertainty, savings and rainfall in Thailand, borrowing constraints, and savings and self control.

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