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Academic Year	2024Year	School/Graduate School	Graduate School of Innovation and Practice for Smart Society (Master's Course)
Lecture Code	WTCZ0007	Subject Classification	Specialized Education
Subject Name	Seminar on Master Thesis
Subject Name （Katakana）
Subject Name in English	Seminar on Master Thesis
Instructor	ICHIHASHI MASARU
Instructor (Katakana)	イチハシ　マサル
Campus		Semester/Term	1st-Year,  Second Semester,  Year
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			This seminar is a course work for graduate students in Master course.
Credits	4.0	Class Hours/Week		Language of Instruction	E : English
Course Level	6 : Graduate Advanced
Course Area（Area）	24 : Social Sciences
Course Area（Discipline）	03 : Economics
Eligible Students
Keywords	Economic Development, Poverty Reduction, SGDs
Special Subject for Teacher Education		Special Subject
Class Status within Educational Program (Applicable only to targeted subjects for undergraduate students)
Criterion referenced Evaluation (Applicable only to targeted subjects for undergraduate students)
Class Objectives /Class Outline	This seminar’s objectives are; Making research plan and finding economic problems we should consider and analyze. Preparation for each student’s thesis in 2nd degree of Master course.
Class Schedule	All participants and students to this seminar will are highly required for basic research activities as follows; 1) Learning about basic theory of Economic Development, models and the methodology 2) Reading some fundamental textbooks for econometric and statistical methods 3) Giving presentation of students' own thesis and discussion on the economic topics or themes.
Text/Reference Books,etc.	Some references will be shown in seminar. For example, Methodology: World Bank, "Handbook on Impact Evaluation" and "Impact Evaluation in Practice", Joshua D. Angrist, "Mastering 'Metrics: The Path from Cause to Effect", Jeffrey M. Wooldridge,"Introductory Econometrics: A Modern Approach", Johnston and DiNardo, "Econometric Methods 4th ed.". R. E. Miller and P.D. Blair, "Input-Output Analysis: Foundations and Extensions", Leontief, W., Input-Output Economics 2nd ed., Economic Development: Erik S. Reinert, Jayati Ghosh and Rainer Kattel ed., "Handbook of Alternative Theories of Economic Development", Erik  Reinert, "How Rich Countries Got Rich ... and Why Poor Countries Stay Poor", Ha- Joon Chang, "Kicking Away The Ladder", Michael Todaro and Stephen Smith, "Economic Development", Matt Ridley, "The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves", Daron Acemoglu、 James Robinson, "Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty", Jared Diamond, "Guns, Germs And Steel: A Short History of Everbody for the Last 13000 Years", Milton Friedman, "Capitalism and Freedom", etc.
PC or AV used in Class,etc.
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Suggestions on Preparation and Review	Seminar students will be evaluated in some points such as contents of their own research and presentation, contribution to seminar in terms of discussion and others.
Requirements
Grading Method	All seminar students are required for publishing their own papers more than one on international journal to get doctorate.
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