Applied Economics

• Wooldridge, Jeffrey M., Introductory econometrics: A modern approach. Cengage Learning, 2016, 6th edition.

• Mankiw, N.G., Principles of Economics”. Cengage Learning, 2018, 8th edition

• Acquiring competence in using microdata and statistical software to replicate empirical studies discussed in class (e.g., IPUMS or HRS)
• Providing competences within collecting, structuring and communicating highly specialized research-based material
• Providing competences in entering into an scientific collaboration, identifying own learning requirements and structuring own learning and project writing
  

• Information search
• Written and oral communication
• Project writing
• Topics within applied economics 

Demonstrate knowledge about the course by being able to:

• Apply microdata to assess problems frequently asked in applied economics, such as is there wage penalty for female labor, what determines female labor force participation, do immigrants, on average, earn less in the same occupation
• Apply statistical methods, such as regression analysis, to selected problems
• Assess the quality and relevance of collected material, including scientific articles and statistical material, on a scientific basis

Demonstrate skills by being able to:

• Use empirical tools to analyze a specific problem
• Structure the compiling of material
• Structure a project
• Communicate – orally and in writing – applied economic research to peers and non-peers

Demonstrate competences by being able to:

• Enter into a scientific collaboration and share knowledge in a work process
• Identify their own learning requirements
• Structure their own project work

Examples:

The literature will consist of scientific articles related to the topics chosen – such as:

Labor Economics:

• Abramitzky, Ran, Leah Platt Boustan, and Katherine Eriksson. "A nation of immigrants: Assimilation and economic outcomes in the age of mass migration." Journal of Political Economy122, no. 3 (2014): 467-506.
• Clemens, Michael A., Ethan G. Lewis, and Hannah M. Postel. Immigration restrictions as active labor market policy: Evidence from the Mexican bracero exclusion. American Economic Review, 108, no. 6 (2018): pp. 1468-87.
• Collins, William J. and Marianne H. Wanamaker. “Selection and Economic Gains in the Great Migration of African Americans: New Evidence from Linked Census Data.” American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 6, no. 1 (2014): 220-252.

Demography:

• Aaronson, Daniel, Fabian Lange, and Bhashkar Mazumder. "Fertility transitions along the extensive and intensive margins." American Economic Review 104, no. 11 (2014): 3701-24
• Ager, Philipp, Casper Worm Hansen, and Peter Sandholt Jensen. "Fertility and early-life mortality: Evidence from smallpox vaccination in Sweden." Journal of the European Economic Association, 16, no 2 (2018): 487-521.
• Bleakley, Hoyt, and Fabian Lange. "Chronic disease burden and the interaction of education, fertility, and growth." The Review of Economics and Statistics 91, no. 1 (2009): 52-65.

Scheduled classes: 

2x2 lectures weekly in the first half of the semester (until the autumn holiday).

1 weekly 2-hour workshop in the second half of the semester.

Workload:

The teaching activities result in an estimated distribution of the work effort of an average student as follows: