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