A customer opens a ride-sharing application on his phone. Companies like Uber and Lyft have dramatically changed the landscape of labor economics in the transportation industry. The economics of ride-sharing are covered in the first half of the course. (Image by Núcleo Editorial on flickr. License: CC BY.)
Instructor(s)
Prof. Daron Acemoglu
Prof. Joshua Angrist
MIT Course Number
14.661
As Taught In
Fall 2017
Level
Graduate
Course Description
Course Features
Course Description
This course aims to acquaint students with traditional and contemporary topics in labor economics and to encourage the development of independent research interests. The class provides a systematic development of the theory of labor supply, labor demand, and human capital. Topics covered include wage and employment determination, immigration, unemployment, equalizing differences, among many others. There is a particular emphasis on the interaction between theoretical and empirical modeling.
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