Announcements

ECON 13191/Honors Seminar 28222

Spring 2008

 

 

 

 

 

 

·         For the week of January 21

o        For Tuesday, January 22, please read the Fisman et al. piece on speed dating

o        On Tuesday morning, check the class web page for two sets of notes.  One on ‘An brief introduction to regressions models’ and the other on ‘Speed dating’

o        For Thursday, January 24, please read the Neidele and Vesterlund article on male/female competition.  Thursday morning, please check the web page for some notes

o        My notes indicate that for Thursday’s class, Sam 6, Jessica and Octavia  will generate some facts about male/female differences in risk taking, while Tim, Sophia and Sam 2 will produce some facts about the differences in ability perception between males and females.  If you can put those in a power point slides and email them to me by Wednesday, I will distribute to the class ahead of time.

 

·         For Thursday, January 17

o        Download the notes about the Bertrand and Mulinathian paper

o       Read Bertrand and Mulinathian

 

·         For the first day of class, January 15th

o        Download the notes, “An introduction to the class”

o        Read the introduction of Freakonomics

o        Read the first two pages and look at Table 1 of Hotz et al.

o        Read the introduction to Levitt