Required: Blau Ferber Winkler, Chapters 1, 7:202-234
Ehrenberg and Smith, Chapter 12
Powerpoint: Introduction
Powerpoint: Labor Market Overview
Powerpoint Employer Discrimination
Required: Blau and Ferber, Chapter 5, 7:202-234
Powerpoint Employee Discrimination
Powerpoint Customer Discrimination
Powerpoint Yinger, 2000
Required: Blau and Ferber, Chapter 5
Powerpoint Thomas Schelling, Micromotives and Macrobehavior
Powerpoint Occupational Crowding
Hand Out Problem Set #1 (due Sept 26)
Powerpoint GroupI: Importing Equality
Powerpoint Group F: Weakest link
Powerpoint Group H: Baseball Cards and Customer Discrimination
Powerpoint Group P: Customer Discrimination and Hiring
Articles: Black and Brainerd, 2004 (Wednesday, 9/10/2008)
Levitt, 2004 (Wednesday 9/10/2008)
Nardinelli and Simon, 1990 (Friday 9/12/2008)
Holzer and Ihlanfeldt, 1998 (Friday 9/12/2008)
Powerpoint Statistical Discrimination
Powerpoint Internal Labor Markets
Powerpoint Heckman on Audit studies
Aigner and Cain, 1977
Group L: Powerpoint: Pinkston, 2006 (Wednesday, 9/17/2008)
Group B: Powerpoint: Bertrand and Mullainathan, 2004 (Wednesday 9/17/2008)
Stoll et al, 2004
Arthur and Cook, 2004
Blau and Ferber, Chapters 6, 8
Stoll et al, 2004 and Arthur and Cook, 2004
PROBLEM SET 1 due Friday, Sept 26
Powerpoint: Models and Policy
Powerpoint: Human Capital Intro
Powerpoint: Present Value review
Continue Blau and Ferber, Chapters 6, 8
MIDTERM 1 October 3
Finish Blau and Ferber, Chapters 6, 8
Goldin, Claudia, Lawrence Katz, and Ilyana Kuziemko. 2006. “Homecoming of American Women.” Journal of Economic Perspectives 20: 133-156.
Preston, Anne E. 2004. Leaving Science: Occupational Exit from Scientific Careers. Chapter 7
POWERPOINT: Cost of Career Interruptions
POWERPOINT: Elite Pools and Elite Positions
Hand out Problem Set #2 due October 13
Lang, Chapters 6,7,11
Powerpoint: The Human Capital Slowdown
Powerpoint: Lang's viewpoint
Powerpoint: Heckman's viewpoint
Powerpoint: The roles of ability and sorting in investment
Problem Set #2 due October 13
Hand Out Team Problem Set #3 due November 12
Powerpoint: The roles of ability and sorting in investment
Powerpoint: Firm Specific Human Capital
Powerpoint: Earnings Functions and the Measure of Discrimination
Powerpoint: Adding inequality to the decomposition
Lang, Chapter 11
Donohue and Heckman, 1992
Group G Powerpoint Blau and Kahn, 2006
Goldin Chapter 4
Group J Powerpoint Couch and Daly, 2002
Powerpoint Using Excel to decompose wages
Powerpoint: Cohort analysis
Blau, Ferber, and Winkler: pp. 234-255
POWERPOINT: Anti discrimination laws part I
Goldin, Chpt 7
Powerpoint Price, 2008
POWERPOINT: Niederlel and Vesterlund. 2007 Background on piece rates and tournaments
Blau, Ferber, and Winkler: pp. 234-255
POWERPOINT: Title VII and Affirmative Action
POWERPOINT: Comparable Worth
Juan Williams on Voting Rights and Barak Obama, Wall Street Journal November 10, 2008
POWERPOINT Persico et al
POWERPOINT Hamermesh and Biddle
POWERPOINT Neumark and Stock
Week 13, November 17: Marriage and time specialization
Start Blau Ferber Winkler Chpts. 2, 3, 9
Midterm 2: November 21
Week 14, November 24: Thanksgiving. Please Drive Safely
Blau Ferber Winkler Chpts. 2, 3, 9
Powerpoint: Time allocation in history
Powerpoint: Household Production
Powerpoint: Marriage
Group E: Aguiar and Hurst on Leisure Consumption
Group M: Baily on the Pill and Female Labor Supply
Week 17: Cumulative Final
Thursday, December 18, 12-2.