Welcome to Graduate Labor Economics


Fall 2011. Tuesdays 2:50pm to 5:40pm. S-632

Office Hours

Hugo Benitez-Silva: Wednesdays 10am to 12pm and by appointment.(SBS S-649).

Syllabus


Assignments


For the August 30 to September 27 period:

Read Chapters 1 to 10, and 12, of Ehrenberg and Smith: Modern Labor Economics, or other undergraduate textbook. Undergraduate Exam will be October 4.

Undergraduate Labor Notes and Other Material

For the September 13 to September 27 period

Read Chapters 2 to 4, and 5 in Becker's Human Capital.

Griliches, Ecta 1977

John Hause, JPE 1972

Maria Casanova's work on Joint Retirement Decisions

For the weeks of September 27 to October 18

An Overview of Dynamic Programming by John Rust.

Structural vs. Atheoretic Approaches to Econometrics, by Michael Keane.

Comments by John Rust on the paper by Michael Keane titled "Structural vs. Atheoretic Approaches to Econometrics".

Belzil and Hansen, Ecta 2002

A Survey by Belzil on the Returns to Schooling with a Structural perspective.

For the weeks of October 25 to November 29

Labor Supply: Static Models

Intertemporal Labor Supply: Males and Females: Read MaCurdy 1981, and Heckman and MaCurdy 1980 and 1982. Also, Altjonji 1986, and Card 1994, are good references.

Notes on Labor Supply. Part I

Notes on Labor Supply. Part II


Useful General References

Handbooks of Labor Economics, Volumes 1, 3A, 3B, and 3C.

Labor Supply by Mark R. Killingsworth

Human Capital by Gary S. Becker

Empirical Labor Economics by Theresa J. Devine, and Nicholas M. Kiefer

The Economics of Discrimination by Gary S. Becker

A Treatise on the Family by Gary S. Becker

Labor Demand by Daniel S. Hamermesh


Other Supporting Material

How to write a successful proposal. This is a roadmap to success.

Community of Science. Grant Information

National Science Foundation. Grant Information

Inomics. Conferences and Job Openings

SSRN. Conferences and Job Openings


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Updated September 13, 2011