Lecture Notes
Freshman Honors Seminar
Spring 2008
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Class
introduction [Download in PPT handout mode], January 15
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Notes for
Bertrand and Mullainathan [Download], January 17
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A brief introduction
to the regression model, [Download] January
22
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Fisman et al.,
[Download] January 24
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Gender
differences in Competition, [Download] January 29
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Adverse
selection and credit card markets, [Download]
January 31
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Sources of
bias in regression models [Download], February 5
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Some notes on
random assignment clinical trials [Download], February 5
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Angrist and
Evans [Download], February 7
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Hotz et al. [Download] February 12
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Nature/Nature
[Download], February 26
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Using states
as laboratories [Download], February 28
1. original PPT slide show [Download]
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Card and
Krueger and the minimum wage [Download],
February 28
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Ayers and
Levitt (Lojack), [Download], March 11
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Acemoglu and
Angrist,
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Explaining the
rise in obesity [Download], March 13
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Corruption [Download], March 18
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Abortion and
Crime [Download], March 25
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Health care
reform [Download], April 1
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Game Theory [Download], April 8
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External costs
of poor health [Download],
April 17
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Environmental
Economics [Download], April 24