Problem Sets
Freshman Honor’s Seminar
Spring 2008
Assignment 1,
Due Thursday, February 21, 2008
Assignment
2, Due Thursday, March 20, 2008
Links to articles for
the second assignment:
- Almond, D., K. Chay, D. Lee, "The Costs of
Low Birth Weight," Quarterly Journal of Economics, 120, 2005,
1031-1084. [download]
- Angrist, Joshua D., Victor Lavy, Using Maimonides' Rule to Estimate the
Effect of Class Size on Scholastic Achievement, The Quarterly
Journal of Economics, Vol. 114, No. 2. (May, 1999), pp. 533-575. [download]
- Angrist,
Joshua D., Victor Lavy and Analia Schlosser, “New Evidence on the Causal
Link Between Quantity and Quality of Children,” NBER
Working Paper # 11835, December 2005.
[download]
- Black, Sandra, “Do Better Schools Matter? Parental
Valuation of Elementary Education, The Quarterly Journal of
Economics, Vol. 114, No. 2. (May, 1999), pp. 577-599. [download]
- Black, Sandra, “The More the
Merrier? The Effect of Family Size
and Birth Order on Children’s Education,”
Quarterly Journal of
Economics, 120(2), 2005, 669-700. [download]
- Caceras-Delpiano, Julio, “The Impacts
of Family Size on Investment in Child Quality,” Journal
of Human Resources, 41(4), 738-754. [download]
- Cristia, Julian, “The Effect of a
First Child on Female Labor Supply:
Evidence from Women Seeking Fertility Services,” Journal
of Human Resources, forthcoming.
[download]
- Conley, Dalton and Rebecca Glauber, “Parental
Educational Investment and Children’s Academic Riskj: Estimates of the Impact of Sibship Size and
Birth Order from Exogenous Variation in Fertility,” Journal
of Human Resources, 41(4), 2006, 722-737. [download]
- Dee,
Thomas, “Teachers, Race and Student Achievement in a Randomized
Experiment,” Review of Economics and Statistics, 86(1), 2004, 195-210. [download]
- Goldin,
Claudia, Cecelia Rouse, “Orchestrating Impartiality: The Impact of Blind Auditions on Female
Musicians,” American Economic Review, 90(4), 2000, 715-741. [download]
- Grove, Wayne A. and Tim Wasserman, “Incentives and
Student Learning: A Natural
Experiment with Economics Problem Sets,” American Economic Review, 92(2), 2006, 447-452. [download]
- Imbens, Guido, et al., “Estimating
the Effect of Unearned Income on Labor Earnings, Savings, and
Consumption: Evidence from a Survey
of Lottery Players,” American
Economic Review, 91(4), 2001, 778-794. [download]
- Lindahl, Mikael, “Estimating the
Effect of Income on Health and Mortality using Lottery Prizes as an
Exogenous Source of Variation in Income,”
Journal of Human Resources, 40(1),
2005, 144-168. [download]
Assignment 3, Due Tuesday April 22