Course Description |
This course will survey recent advances in labor economics. The topics will cover labor supply, labor demand, labor market discrimination, tax incidence, social insurance, and behavioral labor economics. In particular, we emphasize the link between theory and empirical evidence. Thus, for each theoretical topic, we will also survey a specific empirical strategy commonly used in labor economics, such as differencing methods, event study method, synthetic control method, bunching method, regression discontinuity (kink) design, geographic data analysis, and text data analysis. |