Ec533 Materials



Syllabus

Chapters from Acemoglu and Autor: Lectures in Labor Economics
Handouts:
The returns to schooling, ability bias, and regression
Instrumental variables
The LATE theorem and returns to schooling
Weak instruments
Fixed effects and twins estimates of returns to schooling
Differences-in-differences
Handout on Bedard signalling paper

Papers:
Sandewall, Cesarini, and Johannesson (2009)
Oreopoulos corrigendum (2008)
Devereux and Hart (2009)
Rubinstein (2003)
Martorell and Clark (2010)

Problem Set 1
Solutions
Problem Set 2
Solutions
Problem Set 3
Solutions