ECO 540LEC - Economics of Education

This course is designed to highlight how econometrics can be applied to a broad range of empirical problems in the economics of education. A major goal of this course is to get students to read and write research papers by focusing on major issues. Topics to be discussed include: education and school quality, education signaling and school choices, minimum wage, ethnicity, race and gender in the labor market, wage inequality, and returns to working experience and tenure.

Credits: 3

Requisites: Prerequisites: ECO 505 and 580.