I. A Century of Labor Market Action
- Important long-run trends and changes
- The Great Recession: What just happened?
- Data sources and methods
- Measurement problems
II. Labor Supply (Part 1)
- Slutsky for labor
- Application to tax and transfer programs
- Budget set bonanza
- Estimates
III. Metrics (recitation)
- Regression review
- Measurement error models and measurement error consequences
- Maximum likelihood estimation of Probit
- IV and 2SLS basics