Labor economics i

Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session

Recitations: 1 session / week, 1.5 hours / session

The prerequisites for this course are 14.04 Intermediate Microeconomic Theory and 14.32 Econometrics.

The course was divided into two halves. Prof. Josh Angrist taught the first part, and Prof. Daron Acemoglu taught the second part.

Grades are based on four problem sets, an emperical project involving replication and extension of published work, and a three-hour final during exam week. In addition, there are two ungraded problem sets, one at the beginning and one at the end of the course.

O.Ashenfelter and R. Layard. The Handbook of Labor Economics. Vol. 1. North-Holland, 1987. ISBN: 9780444878564.

J. Angrist and Jörn-Steffen Pischke. Mostly Harmless Econometrics: An Empiricist's Companion. Princeton University Press, 2008. ISBN: 9780691120355.

— — —. Mastering 'Metrics: The Path from Cause to Effect. Princeton University, 2014. ISBN: 9780691152844.

P. Cahuch, Stéphane Carcillo, and André Zylberberg. Labor Economics, Second Edition. MIT Press, 2014. ISBN: 9780262027700.

You may also want to consult the lecture notes (PDF - 2.3MB) by Daron Acemoglu and David Autor, though these do not cover all our material.

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