Lecture Notes

Freshman Honors Seminar

Spring 2008

· Class introduction [Download in PPT handout mode], January 15

· Notes for Bertrand and Mullainathan [Download], January 17

· A brief introduction to the regression model, [Download] January 22

· Fisman et al., [Download] January 24

· Gender differences in Competition, [Download] January 29

· Adverse selection and credit card markets, [Download] January 31

· Sources of bias in regression models [Download], February 5

· Some notes on random assignment clinical trials [Download], February 5

· Angrist and Evans [Download], February 7

· Hotz et al. [Download] February 12

· Vietnam Draft lottery [Download], February 14

· Nature/Nature [Download], February 26

· Using states as laboratories [Download], February 28

1. original PPT slide show [Download]

· Card and Krueger and the minimum wage [Download], February 28

· Ayers and Levitt (Lojack), [Download], March 11

· Acemoglu and Angrist, ADA, [Download], March 11

· Explaining the rise in obesity [Download], March 13

· Corruption [Download], March 18

· Abortion and Crime [Download], March 25

· Health care reform [Download], April 1

· Game Theory [Download], April 8

· External costs of poor health [Download], April 17

· Environmental Economics [Download], April 24