1 to 3 credits
Fall 2025 Lecture
Topics in labor economics. While the specific subject matter varies from year to year, recent seminars have examined such topics as dynamic labor demand and supply analysis, human capital theory, screening and signaling theories, contract theory, efficiency wages, job matching, search, unions, and internal labor markets. Material is selected from current journal articles.
Learning Outcomes1Understand the background and motivation for various microeconometric model.
2Recognize the assumptions or conditions that provide identification of the treatment effect in each model.
3Use Stata to estimate policy-relevant treatment effect using non-experimental data.
4Demonstrate how to read and understand economic journal articles that use the methods introduced in this course.
5Perform PhD-level empirical research using microeconometric methods.
Restrictions
made by Purdue students.