Welcome to Graduate Labor Economics
Fall 2009. Mondays 5:10pm to 8:10pm. N-603
Office Hours
Hugo Benitez-Silva: Thursdays 11am to 1pm and by appointment.(SBS S-649).
Syllabus
Assignments
For the August 31 to September 29 period:
Read Chapters 1 to 10, and 12, of Ehrenberg and Smith: Modern Labor Economics, or other
undergraduate textbook. Undergraduate Exam will be October 5.
Undergraduate
Labor Notes and Other Material
For the September 14 to September 21 period
Read Chapters 2 to 4, and 5 in Becker's Human Capital.
Griliches, Ecta 1977
John Hause, JPE 1972
For the weeks of September 29 to October 19
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 26 to November 16
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
Prepare a referee report of Benitez-Silva and Yin's 2008 paper.
See details of the assignment
Sample report
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 August 31, 2009