THE ECONOMICS OF GROWING-UP AND GETTING OLD
What does economics have to say about how or why people decide to go to school, get married (or divorced), or have children? Use economic models to investigate these "every day occurrences." Start with early childhood and trace out the life cycle from schooling to retirement, concentrating on six stages of life: early childhood; schooling; adolescence; marriage and divorce; fertility; and retirement decisions.
Prerequisites & course information
Requisites: ECON 310 Course Designation: Core GenEd - Social & Behavioral Science Breadth - Social Science Level - Intermediate L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2019 Learning Outcomes: 1. Understand important empirical problems in social science (such as correlation vs causation, endogeneity, omitted variable bias) and tools for overcoming them Audience: Undergraduate 2. Understand important theoretical models of human behavior (such as game theory, signaling models, hyperbolic discounting) and how to apply them to particular environments Audience: Undergraduate 3. Understand important models of particular "life cycle" decisions (health, schooling, marrying, divorce, fertility) Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Understand important empirical problems in social science (such as correlation vs causation, endogeneity, omitted variable bias) and tools for overcoming them Audience: Undergraduate 2. Understand important theoretical models of human behavior (such as game theory, signaling models, hyperbolic discounting) and how to apply them to particular environments Audience: Undergraduate 3. Understand important models of particular "life cycle" decisions (health, schooling, marrying, divorce, fertility) Audience: Undergraduate
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027