Social Science Degrees in the USA

...problem sets on your own and without consulting old problem set solutions - it will clearly be in your interest to understand all of the material on...

...Each week there are two lectures and a weekly recitation. In addition to the readings, there are 6 graded problem sets and ungraded review problem...

...Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session All students will be expected to have successfully completed: Students may find it useful to take at least... Learn about: Communication Training...

...(worth 35%). There will be 6 problem sets. This will constitute 15% of the grade. The solution to this problem will be posted after the due...

...experience with using the methods on real data sets. Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session Recitations: 1 session / week, 1.5 hours / session...

...National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Working Paper No. 11628 (August 2005): 1-65. Chernozhukov, V., and H. Hong. "Three-step Censored Quantile Regression...

...This course focuses on recent developments in econometrics, especially structural estimation. The topics include nonseparable models, models of imperfect competition...

...A few core and frontier articles are also listed for each topic. This course is co-taught by Prof. Joshua Angrist and Prof. Victor Chernozhukov...

...be worth the remaining 25% of the grade. No late problem sets will be accepted for any reason. Grading will be based on the top 4/5 grades... Learn about: Health Insurance, Income Tax...

...of the problem sets or anything else. The course textbook is: Kolstad, Charles. Environmental Economics. 2nd ed. Oxford University Press,... Learn about: Office IT, Ms Office, Climate Change...

...regulations be tightened or loosened? What are the costs of climate change in the U.S. and abroad? Is there a "Race to the Bottom" in environmental regulation?... Learn about: Climate Change, Ms Office, Professor Training...

...For students taking the subject as 14.44 there will be a midterm examination and a final examination. For students taking the subject as 14.444 there... Learn about: Energy Markets...

...price regulation, deregulation, energy efficiency and policies for controlling emission. Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session Recitations... Learn about: Energy Markets...

...brief overview of optimal control theory and dynamic programming; basic neoclassical growth model under a variety of market structures; human capital and economic growth... Learn about: Financial Training, International Trade...

...1.5 hours / session This is the second course in the four-quarter graduate sequence in macroeconomics. Its purpose is to introduce the basic models macroeconomists... Learn about: Interest Rates...

...role of human capital in economic growth, and introduce some basic models that are useful for thinking about human capital investments. Endogenous Growth...

...The final grade will be a weighted average of the problems sets and the final exam. The final exam will be during the time of our last scheduled class...

...MIT OpenCourseWare is a free & open publication of material from thousands of MIT courses, covering the entire MIT curriculum. No enrollment or registration...

...credit crunches and financial crashes are associated with dramatic shifts in such beliefs. But what causes shifts in these kinds of beliefs?...

...The prerequisites for this course are 14.461 Advanced Macroeconomics I, 14.122 Microeconomic Theory II, and 14.452 Macroeconomic Theory II. There are... Learn about: Professor Training...