Economics of HELP

4.0 credits

This class provides an introduction to some of the cutting-edge research topics in applied microeconomics, specifically in the areas of health, education, and labor market policy. We will read and discuss a series of empirical (generally reduced-form) working papers and recently-published articles in these areas and discuss the research questions, empirical designs, and implications of the various papers, and pair them with “classic” papers in the literature that were pathbreaking at the time, continue to influence the field, and are among the “must know” papers for any PhD economist in these empirical domains