The International and Development Economics Program (IDE), which is administered by the Center on behalf of Yale's Economics Department, offers a one-year course of study leading to the Master of Arts degree. The program is designed to provide rigorous training to students whose careers are or will be in the area of economic development or international economics. The curriculum of the program is designed to help students develop a solid core of analytical skills that will be of value to them in subsequent professional work. Many students entering the program are early career professionals in the public or private sectors in developing countries, and graduates of the program serve in government ministries, planning agencies, central banks, academic institutions, private firms, and international agencies. The IDE program offers one joint degree option. The joint IDE/Environmental Studies program allows students to earn both the Master of Arts degree in economics and the Master of Environmental Studies degree from Yale's School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.
Several members of the Economic Growth Center have traditionally been engaged in research on the Japanese economy, its neighboring countries, and its relationship to the United States. Currently, Koichi Hamada and Gustav Ranis, among others, are involved in the Center's Japanese Studies Program. Research under this program has covered topics such as a comparison of the incentive mechanism of intellectual property rights law in Japan and the United States; the role of Japan and the U.S. in the third world; and the relationship of the U.S. and Japan to the developing world in the dimensions of the flow of foreign aid, the flow of private foreign investment and technology, and the impact of immigration or labor flows. As part of the Japanese Studies Program, the Center has established an academic and cultural exchange with the Research Institute for Economics and Business Administration of Kobe University. Under a joint agreement, the two institutions exchange faculty members, research staff, and students; pursue research projects; support lectures, workshops, and symposia; and exchange information and academic publications.
In 1988, the Rockefeller Foundation began funding a research and training program on The Economics of the Family. The program, which is in its last three years, is designed to use the tools of microeconomics and household economics to study gender differences in low-income countries. Specifically, the program emphasizes the differences in wages and productivity, labor supply, time allocation, health, and schooling between men and women and analyzes the ways in which these differences are influenced by technical change and development policy. Professor T. Paul Schultz directs the program.
The Center for Data Sharing (CDS) at the Economic Growth Center was created to increase access to and use of household surveys and community files from developing countries. To this end, the work of the CDS involves gathering, documenting, and checking data files, and finally transforming the files into SAS transport and/or ASCII formats for distribution to interested researchers. The CDS currently has available the household surveys from the Bicol region of the Philippines, the ICRISAT village-level study from India and the ICRISAT plot-level production study from Burkina Faso. Researchers who have databases they feel would be appropriate for inclusion in the CDS collection are invited to contact the CDS Director, Professor T. Paul Schultz. More information about the CDS or the files available for distribution may be obtained from the Project Coordinator.
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