ÿþ<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=unicode"> <title>Assignments</title> <style> <!-- h2 { font-size:18.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black; font-weight:bold; } a:link, span.MsoHyperlink { color:blue; text-decoration:underline; text-underline:single; } a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed { color:#551A8B; text-decoration:underline; text-underline:single; } p { font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black; } p.MsoAcetate, li.MsoAcetate, div.MsoAcetate { font-size:8.0pt; font-family:Tahoma; color:black } .Section1 p strong { color: #0000A0; } --> </style> </head> <body bgcolor=silver lang=EN-US link=blue vlink="#551A8B" alink="#ff0000"> <div class=Section1> <div align=center style='text-align:center'> <hr size=2 width="100%" align=center> </div> <h2>NOTES: </h2> <p><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt'>Schedule is tentative depending on pace of lectures </span></b></p> <p><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt'>* Means read for detail; unmarked means skim for content if you wish</span></b></p> <div align=center style='text-align:center'> <hr size=2 width="100%" align=center> </div> <h3>Week 1-3: August 23-September 9:Preliminaries, Production in two inputs, Earnings functions</h3> <p><strong>NOTES</strong></p> <p><a href="ec521_intro.pdf">Introductory slides</a> August 26,31</p> <p><a href="earnings functions.pdf">Earnings Functions</a> September 2 <a href="age_Earnings Profiles.pdf">Addendum on recent age_earnings profiles</a></p> <p><a href="Hellerstein_et_al.pdf">Matched Employer-Employee Data</a> September 7</p> <p><a href="law of one price.pdf">Do Wages equalize?</a> September 7</p> <p><a href="Propper.pdf">Analyzing Wage regulation</a> September 7,9</p> <p><strong>READINGS</strong></p> <p>Advanced Survey: Cahuc and Zylberberg, Chapter 4 or Hamermesh, Chapters 2-3 </p> <p>Undergraduate Survey: Ehrenberg and Smith Chapters 1-3</p> <p><a href="Papers/orazem_RAE.pdf">*Orazem, <i>Review of Agricultural Economics</i> 20 (Fall/Winter, 1998):489-501 </a><a href="Papers/orazem_RAE_errata.pdf">+errata</a></p> <p><a href="Papers/Golub_hsieh.pdf">Golub, Stephen and Chang-Tai Hsieh.. &quot; Classical Ricardian Theory of Comparative Advantage Revisited.&quot; <em>Review of International Economics</em> &nbsp;&nbsp;(May 2000): 221-234. </a></p> <p><a href="Papers/cobb-douglas.pdf">Cobb, Charles W. and Paul H. Douglas.&nbsp; &ldquo;A Theory of Production.&rdquo; <em>American Economic Review </em>18(1) (March 1928):<em> 139-165.&nbsp; </em></a></p> <p>*<span class=GramE><a href="Papers/Hellerstein_Neumark_Troske_JoLE.pdf">Hellerstein, Neumark and Troske.</a></span> <a href="Papers/Hellerstein_Neumark_Troske_JoLE.pdf"><i>Journal of Labor Economics</i> (July 1999):409-446. </a></p> <p><a href="Papers/hirsch_law of one wage.pdf">Hirsch, Barry T. &ldquo;Wage Gaps Large and Small.&rdquo; <em>Southern Economic Journal</em> 74(4) (April 2008): 914-933.</a></p> <p><a href="Papers/Black_Kolesnikova_Taylor.pdf">*Black, Dan, Natalya Kolesnikova and Lowell Taylor. &ldquo;Earnings Functions When Wages and Prices Vary by Location.&rdquo; <em>Journal of Labor Economics </em>27(1) (January 2009):21-48.</a></p> <p><a href="Papers/Propper_Van-Reenen.pdf">*Propper, Carol and John Van Reenen. &ldquo;Can Pay Regulation Kill?&nbsp; Panel Data Evidence on the Effect of Labor Markets on Hospital Performance.&rdquo;&nbsp; <em>Journal of Political Economy</em> 118(2) (April 2010): 222-273.</a></p> <div align=center style='text-align:center'> <hr size=2 width="100%" align=center> </div> <h3>Week 3-5: September 14-24:Discrimination: models and measurement</h3> <p><strong>NOTES</strong></p> <p><a href="Becker_Discrimination.pdf">Discrimination Intro</a></p> <p><a href="statistical discrimination.pdf">Statistical Discrimination</a></p> <p><a href="Bertrand_mullainathan.pdf">Audit Studies</a></p> <p><strong>READINGS</strong></p> <p><a href="Papers/Becker_disc.pdf">*Becker, G. The Economics of Discrimination, 1957, Chapters 1-3. </a><br> <br> <a href="Papers/aigner_cain.pdf">Aigner, D. J., and G. G. Cain. &quot;Statistical Theories of Discrimination in Labor Markets.&quot; <em>Industrial and Labor Relations Review</em>, January 1977, 175-87. </a><br> <br> Altonji and Blank. &quot;Race and Gender in the Labor Market.&quot; in Ashenfelter and Card eds.Handbook of Labor Economics Vol 3C, Chapter 48.1999. IN LIBRARY</p> <p><a href="Papers/Hellerstein_JHR.pdf">Hellerstein, Judith K., David Neumark and Kenneth R. Troske.&nbsp; &ldquo;Market Forces and Sex Discrimination.&rdquo;&nbsp;<em>Journal of Human Resources </em>.37 (Spring 2002): 353-380.</a><br> <br> <a href="Papers/bertrand_emily.pdf">*Bertrand, Marianne and Sendhil Mullainathan. &ldquo;Are Emily and Greg More Employable Than Lakisha and Jamal?&nbsp; A Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination.&rdquo;&nbsp; <em>American Economic Review</em> 94(4) (September 2004): 991-1013. </a></p> <p><a href="Papers/heckman_detecting.pdf">Heckman, James J. 1998. &ldquo;Detecting Discrimination.&rdquo; <em>The Journal of Economic Perspectives </em>12 (Spring): 101-116.</a></p> <p><a href="Papers/pinkston_screening.pdf">Pinkston, Joshua C. 2006. &ldquo;A Test of Screening Discrimination with Employer Learning.&rdquo; <em>Industrial and Labor Relations Review </em>59 (January): 267-284.</a></p> <p><a href="Papers/Arai_Thoursie.pdf">Arai, M., &amp; Thoursie, P. S. 2009. &quot;Renouncing personal names: An empirical examination of surname change and earnings.&quot; <em>Journal of Labor Economics</em> (27): 127&ndash;147.</a></p> </div> <div align=center style='text-align:center'></div> <h3>Week 6-7: September 28-October 7:Dual Methods, Substitutability vs Complementarity, Technical Change and Labor Demand</h3> <p><strong>NOTES</strong></p> <p><a href="prod_theory.pdf">Powerpoint on Production Theory</a></p> <p><a href="Huang-ollinger.pdf">Examples of Primal and Dual Estimation</a></p> <p><a href="Primal vs Dual.pdf">Choosing Primal vs Dual</a></p> <p><a href="moretti1.pdf">Moretti-Spillovers and Agglomeration</a></p> <p><a href="caselli.pdf">Caselli_Coleman-Technology Frontiers</a></p> <p><a href="substitution notes.pdf">*Background Notes on Primal and Dual Methods</a></p> <p><a href="Hicks-Marshall_2010.pdf">*Background on the Hicks-Marshal Laws of Derived Demand</a></p> <p><a href="CES formulations.pdf">*Background Notes on CES Production Functions</a></p> <p><strong>READINGS</strong></p> <p><a href="Papers/Moretti_AER2004.pdf">Moretti, Enrico. &ldquo;Workers&rsquo; Education, Spillovers, and Productivity: Evidence from Plant-level Production Functions.&rdquo; <em>American Economic Review</em> (June 2004): 656-690.</a><br> &nbsp;<br> <a href="Papers/Schmitz_jpe_2005.pdf">Schmitz, James A. &ldquo;What Determines Productivity? Lessons from the Dramatic Recovery of the U.S. and Canadian Iron Ore Industries Following Their Early 1980s Crisis.&rdquo;&nbsp; <em>Journal of Political Economy</em> (June 2005):582-625.</a></p> <p><a href="Papers/caselli-coleman_2006.pdf">Caselli, Francesco and Wilbur John Coleman II. &ldquo;The World Technology Frontier.&rdquo;<em> American Economic Review </em>96 (March 2006): 499-522.</a></p> <p><a href="Papers/Greenstone_Moretti_JPE2010.pdf">Greenstone, Michael, Richard Hornbeck, and Enrico Moretti.&nbsp; 2010. &ldquo;Identifying Agglomeration Spillovers: Evidence from Winners and Losers of Large Plant Openings.&rdquo; <em>Journal of Political Economy</em> 118(3):536-598.</a></p> <p>Example of Primal Estimation: <a href="Papers/Huang_et_al.pdf">Huang, Tzu-Ling, J. Arne Hallam, Peter F. Orazem and Elizabeth Paterno, &quot;Empirical Tests of Efficiency Wage Models,&quot; <em>Economica</em> 65 (February 1998):125-143.</a></p> <p>Examples of Dual Estimation:<a href="Papers/Ollinger_MacDonald_2005.pdf">Ollinger, Michael, James M. MacDonald and Milton Madison. Technological Change and Economies of Scale in U.S. Poultry Processing.&rdquo; <em>American Journal of Agricultural Economics</em> (February 2005):&nbsp; 116-129. </a></p> <p><a href="Papers/JD_Adams_RESTAT99.pdf">Adams, James D. &quot;The Structure of Firm R&amp;D, the Factor Intensity of Production, and Skill Bias.&quot; <em>Review of Economics and Statistics</em> August 1999 </a></p> <div align=center style='text-align:center'></div> <h3>Week 8-11: Inequality October 7-October 28</h3> <p><strong>NOTES</strong> <p><a href="inequality information.pdf">Notes on World and U.S. Wage Inequality</a> <p><a href="Katz_Murphy.pdf">Katz and Murphy Approaches</a> <p><a href="Blau_Kahn.pdf">Blau and Kahn: Residual inequality and male-female wage gaps</a> <p><a href="Problem Set 1_2010.pdf">Problem Set 1 notes</a> <p><a href="Autor_Katz_Kenney.pdf">Labor market composition: Lemieux and Autor <em>et al</em></a> <p><strong>READINGS</strong> <p><a href="Papers/autor_katz_REStat2008.pdf">*Autor, David H., Lawrence Katz and Melissa S. Kearney. &ldquo;Trends in U.S. Wage Inequality: Revising the Revisionists.&rdquo;&nbsp; <em>The Review of Economics and Statistics</em> 90(2) (May 2008): 300-323.</a> <p>*Katz and Autor. &quot;Changes in the Wage Structure and Earnings Inequality.&quot; in Ashenfelter and Card eds. <em>Handbook of Labor Economics Vol 3A, Chapter 26.1999. </em><strong>(In Library)</strong><br> <br> <a href="Papers/Lemieux_AER.pdf">Lemieux, Thomas. &ldquo;Increasing Residual Wage Inequality: Composition Effects, Noisy Data, or Rising Demand for Skill?&rdquo; <em>American Economic Review </em>96 (March 2006): 461-498.</a> <p><a href="Papers/blau_convergence_90s.pdf">Blau, Francine D., and Lawrence M. Kahn.&nbsp; &ldquo;The U.S. Gender Pay Gap in the 1990s: Slowing Convergence. &rdquo; <em>Industrial and Labor Relations Review </em>60 (October 2006): 45-66.</a> <p><a href="Papers/Blau_Kahn_cognitive returns.pdf">Blau, Francine D., and Lawrence M. Kahn. &quot;Do Cognitive Test Scores Explain Higher U.S. Wage Inequal;ity? &quot;<em> The Review of Economics and Statistics</em> 87(1):184-193.</a> <p>The following will be touched on in lecture <p> <a href="Papers/Katz_Murphy_1992.pdf">Lawrence F. Katz and Kevin M. Murphy 1992. &ldquo;Changes in Relative Wages, 1963-1987: Supply and Demand Factors.&rdquo; <em>The Quarterly Journal of Economics </em>107(1): 35-78</a> <p><a href="Papers/juhn_murphy_pierce.pdf">Juhn, Chinhui, Kevin M. Murphy, and Brooks Pierce. &quot;Wage Inequality and the Rise in Returns to Skill.&quot; <em>Journal of Political Economy</em> 101 (June 1992): 410-442. </a> <p><a href="Papers/card_lemieux.pdf">Card, David and Thomas Lemieux. &quot;Can Falling Supply Explain the Rising Return to College for Younger Men? A Cohort-Based Analysis.&quot; Quarterly Journal of Economics. 116 (May 2001): 705-746. </a> <p><a href="Papers/Autor_Katz_Krueger.pdf">Autor, David H., Lawrence F. Katz, Alan B. Krueger. &ldquo;Computing Inequality: Have Computers Changed the Labor Market?&rdquo; <em>The Quarterly Journal of Economics</em> 113(4):1169-1213.</a> <p><a href="Papers/dunne_et_al.pdf">Dunne, Timothy, Lucia Foster, John Haltiwanger and Kenneth R. Troske. &ldquo;Wage and Productivity Dispersion in United States Manufacturing: The Role of Computer Investment.&rdquo; <em>Journal of Labor Economics</em> (April 2004): 397-430.</a> <p><a href="Papers/Hanson_JEL-2006.pdf">Gordon Hanson. 2006. &ldquo;Illegal Migration from Mexico to the United States.&rdquo;&nbsp; Journal of Economic Literature&nbsp; 44 (December): 869-924.&#13;</a> <div align=center style='text-align:center'></div> <h3><strong>Week 12-13: Self-sorting and Entrepreneurship: November 2-12</strong></h3> <p><strong>NOTES</strong></p> <p><a href="O-ring.pdf">O-ring notes</a></p> <p><a href="Lazear s  Jack-of-all-Trades .pdf">Lazear_entrepreneurship notes</a></p> <p><a href="entrepreneur_empirical.pdf">Empirical entrepreneurship</a></p> <p><strong>READINGS</strong></p> <p><a href="Papers/Kremer_oring.pdf">Kremer, Michael.&nbsp; &ldquo;The O-Ring Theory of Economic Development.&rdquo; <em>Quarterly Journal of Economics.</em> 108 (August 1993): 551-575.</a></p> <p><a href="Papers/oring_inequality_economica.pdf">Dalmazzow, Alberto, Tuomas Pekkarinen and Pasquale Scaramozzino. &ldquo;O-ring Wage Inequality.&rdquo; <em>Economica</em> 74 (August 2007): 515-536.</a></p> <p><a href="Papers/jole_fox_firm_size.pdf">Fox, Jeremy T. &ldquo;Firm-Size Wage Gaps, Job Responsibility, and Hierarchical Matching.&rdquo;&nbsp; <em>Journal of Labor Economics</em> 27(1) (January 2009):83-126.</a></p> <p><a href="Papers/Lazear_entrepreneurship.pdf">Lazear, Edward P. &ldquo;Entrepreneurship.&rdquo;&nbsp; <em>Journal of Labor Economics</em> (October 2005): 649-680.</a></p> <p><a href="Papers/Hamilton_JPE.pdf">Hamilton, Barton H. &ldquo;Does entrepreneurship pay? An empirical analysis of the returns to self-employment.&rdquo;&nbsp; <em>Journal of Political Economy</em> 108 (June 2000): 604-631.</a></p> <p><a href="Papers/Hall-Woodward.pdf">Hall, Robert E. and Susan E. Woodward. &ldquo;The Burden of the Nondiversifiable Risk of Entrepreneurship.&rdquo; <em>American Economic Review</em> 100(3) (June 2010): 1163-1194</a>.</p> <p><a href="Papers/Kerr_Lincoln.pdf">Kerr, William R. and William F. Lincoln.&nbsp; &ldquo;The Supply Side of Innovation: H-1B Visa Reforms and U.S. Ethnic Invention.&rdquo; <em>Journal of Labor Economics</em> 28(3)&nbsp; (July 2010): 473-508.</a></p> <div align=center style='text-align:center'></div> <h3><strong>Week 14-15: Selection and Empirical Methods: November 15-Dec 3</strong></h3> <p><strong>NOTES</strong></p> <p><a href="selection1.pdf">Selection Notes</a></p> <p><a href="Experimental Design.pdf">Evaluation Designs</a></p> <p><a href="prop_score.pdf">Matching, Fixed Effects and Difference in Differences</a></p> <p><a href="RD designs.pdf">Regression Discontinuity</a></p> <p><strong>READINGS</strong></p> <p><a href="Papers/willis_HLE.pdf">Willis, Robert G., &quot;Wage Determinants: A Survey and Interpretation of Human Capital Earnings Functions,&quot; in Ashenfelter and Layard, <em>Handbook of Labor Economics</em>, 1986. </a></p> <p>Card. &quot;The Causal Effect of Education on Earnings.&quot; in Ashenfelter and Card eds. <em>Handbook of Labor Economics Vol 3A, Chapter 30.</em>1999. IN LIBRARY RESERVE</p> <p>Angrist, Joshua and Alan Krueger. &quot;Empirical Strategies in Labor Economics.&rdquo; in Ashenfelter and Card eds. <em>Handbook of Labor Economics Vol 3A, Chapter 23 </em>1999. IN LIBRARY RESERVE</p> <p><a href="Papers/Lee_Lemieux_JEL2010.pdf">Lee, David S. and Thomas Lemieux. &ldquo;Regression Discontinuity Designs in Economics.&rdquo; <em>Journal of Economic Literature </em>48(2) (June 2010): 281-355.</a></p> <p><a href="javascript:s('%22Quarterly-Journal-of-Economics%22%20in%20SO')"><br> </a> </p> <p><a href="javascript:s('%22Quarterly-Journal-of-Economics%22%20in%20SO')"><br> </a></p> <p><br> </p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><br> </p> </body> </html>