Announcements
ECON 13191/Honors Seminar 28222
Spring 2008
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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.
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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