Week 1, August 25: Introduction to Discrimination, Taste based discrimination

Required: Blau Ferber Winkler, Chapters 1, 7:202-234

Ehrenberg and Smith, Chapter 12

Powerpoint: Introduction

Powerpoint: Labor Market Overview

Powerpoint Employer Discrimination


Week 2, September 1: Complete Tastes, Crowding

Required: Blau and Ferber, Chapter 5, 7:202-234

Powerpoint Employee Discrimination

Powerpoint Customer Discrimination

Powerpoint  Yinger, 2000


Week 3, September 8: Crowding and Statistical Discrinimation

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)


Week 4, September 15: Statistical Discrimination, Internal Labor markets, Glass Ceilings, and Work Rules

 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


Week 5: September 22: Finish Internal Labor Markets, Introduce Human Capital, and Differences in Occupations, Education and Earnings

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


Week 6, September 29: Continue Human Capital

Continue Blau and Ferber, Chapters 6, 8

MIDTERM 1 October 3


Week 7, Oct 6: Complete Human Capital, Firm-Specific Training, Elite Positions

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


Week 8, Oct 13: Human Capital for the Poor and Minorities--Heckman versus Lang. Policy Options?

Lang, Chapters 6,7,11

Heckman and others, pp.15-56

Powerpoint: The Human Capital Slowdown

Powerpoint: Lang's viewpoint

Powerpoint: Heckman's viewpoint

Powerpoint: The roles of ability and sorting in investment

NYTimes-math skills

Problem Set #2 due October 13


Week 9, Oct 20: Earnings Functions and the Empirical Definition of Discrimination

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


Week 10, Oct 27: Inequality and Relative Pay: Swimming Up the Earnings Distribution

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


Week 11, November 3: Historical perspectives on Black-white differences; Anti-discrimination laws, and pre market factors

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

POWERPOINT Mueller and Plug


Week 12, November 10: Complete Antidiscrimination laws, comparable worth

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


Week 15, December 1: Time allocation in the household and the theory of marriage

Blau Ferber Winkler Chpts. 2, 3, 9

Powerpoint: Time allocation in history

Powerpoint: Household Production


Week 16, December 8: Finish time allocation in the household and the theory of marriage

Powerpoint: Marriage

Ames, 1975-1915

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.