Economics of Work and Family : Junior Seminar

Harvard FAS

How are the most personal choices and life transitions decided? What career will you pursue? Will you partner or marry? How many children will you have? This course explores empirically, historically, comparatively, and theoretically the changing significance, timing, and meaning of work, career, dating, marriage, family, and other “personal” decisions. Students will take part in the creative process of researching, writing, and presenting an original paper using primary sources (mainly…