About: This page contains development-related teaching materials, especially details and links to the free annual/semi-annual BREAD-IGC Virtual PhD Course our our VDEV/CEPR/BREAD Seminars.
New materials: BREAD Fellows and Affiliates may share courses, materials, and lectures that they have developed, coordinated or recommend. Please reach out to ibread@princeton.edu to share any materials you would like to be considered to be listed.
BREAD co-organizes an online seminar series for a global audience on development economics topics with VDEV and CEPR. Seminars are held biweekly on Tuesdays.
The Fall 2025 sessions of the Virtual Development Economics Series will start on Tuesday 9 September 2025 and will take place virtually, bi-weekly on Tuesdays at 4PM CEST / 3PM BST / 10AM EDT / 7AM PDT until Tuesday 2 December 2025.
For US attendees: Due to the Daylight Saving Time change, seminar timing will switch one hour once Daylight Savings time switches.
Register and check the seminar schedule here.
The BREAD Course Committee organizes an online PhD course annually. The IGC website has all information for the courses and many recorded lectures from past years.
See most recent courses below with links to IGC website. See IGC FAQ for additional information about the course.
Fall 2025: Social Protection
Fall 2024: Urban Economics
Fall 2023: Environmental Economics
Spring 2023: Firms and Development
Spring 2022: Education; Credit, insurance, and risk; and Migration