Lecture Notes

Below is a selection of lecture notes that approximate chronologically the topics and themes listed on the calendar

First Part - Oreopoulos

LEC # TITLE
2 Labor Supply (PDF)
3 Instrumental Variables (PDF)
4 Empirical Applications to Labor Supply (PDF)
5 Intertemporal Labor Supply (PDF)
6 Labor Supply of Taxi Drivers (PDF)
7 Labor Demand (PDF)
8 Labor Demand: Empirical Evidence of Effects of Immigration (PDF)
9 Imperfect Markets (PDF)
11 Education (PDF)
12 Credit Constraint Effects (PDF)
13 Compulsory Schooling, Dropout Behavior, and Alternatives to the Human Capital Model (PDF)

Second Part - Autor

LEC # TITLE
1 Theories of the Provision and Payment of General Skills Training (PDF)
2 Firm Specific Human Capital: Theory and Evidence (PDF)
3 Efficiency Wages, the Shapiro-Stiglitz Model (PDF)
4 Efficiency Wages, Neoclassical and Non-Neoclassical Evidence (PDF)
5 Monitoring, Measurement and Risk (PDF)
6 Self-Selection - The Roy Model (PDF)
7 Market Signaling - Theory and Evidence (PDF)
8 The Economics of Discrimination - Theory (PDF)
9 The Economics of Discrimination - Evidence (PDF)
10 The Economics of Immigration (PDF)