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11.128 Information Technology and the Labor Market, Spring 2003
(2003-06)In this course, we will explore how information technology is reshaping the U.S. labor market: the mix of occupations, the skills required to perform an occupation, the way work is organized, labor productivity, wage levels ... -
11.237 / SP.660 Gender and Race, Work, and Public Policy, Spring 2005
(2005-06)This course provides an analytic framework for understanding the roles that gender and race play in defining the work worlds of women and men in our society, including ways in which gender intersects with race and class. ... -
14.452 Macroeconomic Theory II, Spring 2002
(2002-06)The basic machines of macroeconomics. Ramsey, Solow, Samuelson-Diamond, RBCs, ISLM, Mundell-Fleming, Fischer-Taylor. How they work, what shortcuts they take, and how they can be used. Half-term subject. From the course ... -
14.452 Macroeconomic Theory II, Spring 2005
(2005-06)The basic machines of macroeconomics. Ramsey, Solow, Samuelson-Diamond, RBCs, ISLM, Mundell-Fleming, Fischer-Taylor. How they work, what shortcuts they take, and how they can be used. Half-term subject. From the course ... -
14.471 Public Economics I, Fall 2007
(2007-12)Theory and evidence on government taxation policy. Topics include tax incidence, optimal tax theory, the effect of taxation on labor supply and savings, taxation and corporate behavior, and tax expenditure policy. -
14.475 Environmental Economics and Government Responses to Market Failure, Spring 2005
(2005-06)This course explores the theory behind and evidence on regulatory, tax, and other government responses to problems of market failure. Special emphasis is given to developing and implementing tools to evaluate environmental ... -
14.661 Labor Economics I, Fall 2003 - Fall 2004
(2004-12)The aim of this course is to acquaint students with traditional topics in labor economics and to encourage the development of independent research interests. This course is taught in two parts: Fall term and then in the ... -
14.661 Labor Economics I, Fall 2006
(2006-12)Neoclassical analysis of the labor market and its institutions. A systematic development of the theory of labor supply, labor demand, and human capital. Topics discussed also include wage and employment determination, ... -
14.661 Labor Economics I, Fall 2010
(2010-12)The aim of this course is to acquaint students with traditional topics in labor economics and to encourage the development of independent research interests. We will cover a systematic development of the theory of labor ... -
14.662 Labor Economics II, Spring 2005
(2005-06)The development and evolution of labor market structures and institutions. Particular focus on competing explanations of recent developments in the distribution of wage and salary income and in key institutions and ... -
14.662 Labor Economics II, Spring 2007
(2007-06)This is the second of a two-part sequence of courses in labor economics. The course sequence is also open to qualified students in related fields and classes may be taken individually or out of sequence. This part of the ... -
14.731 Economic History, Fall 2003
(2003-12)A survey of world economic history, designed to introduce economics graduate students to the subject matter and methodology of economic history. Topics chosen to show a wide variety of historical experience and illuminate ... -
14.771 Development Economics: Microeconomic Issues and Policy Models, Fall 2008
(2008-12)Topics include productivity effects of health, private and social returns to education, education quality, education policy and market equilibrium, gender discrimination, public finance, decision making within families, ... -
17.188J / 11.414J Labor and Politics, Fall 2005
(2005-12)This graduate research and reading seminar examines an array of issues facing labor in today's global world. The premise of this course is that recent developments (e.g., globalization, liberalization, privatization, etc.) ... -
17.872 Quantitative Research in Political Science and Public Policy, Spring 2004
(2004-06)This course provides students with a rigorous introduction to Statistics for Political Science. Topics include basic mathematical tools used in social science modeling and statistics, probability theory, theory of estimation ...