040168 UK Macro Labor Economics (MA) (2017S)
Continuous assessment of course work
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Registration/Deregistration
Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).
- Registration is open from We 15.02.2017 09:00 to We 22.02.2017 12:00
- Deregistration possible until Tu 14.03.2017 23:59
Details
max. 24 participants
Language: English
Lecturers
Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N
Wednesday
01.03.
15:00 - 16:30
Hörsaal 8 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
Monday
06.03.
11:30 - 13:00
Seminarraum 14 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
Wednesday
08.03.
15:00 - 16:30
Hörsaal 8 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
Wednesday
15.03.
15:00 - 16:30
Hörsaal 8 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
Monday
20.03.
11:30 - 13:00
Seminarraum 14 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
Wednesday
22.03.
15:00 - 16:30
Hörsaal 8 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
Monday
27.03.
11:30 - 13:00
Seminarraum 14 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
Wednesday
29.03.
15:00 - 16:30
Hörsaal 8 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
Monday
03.04.
11:30 - 13:00
Seminarraum 14 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
Wednesday
05.04.
15:00 - 16:30
Hörsaal 8 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
Monday
24.04.
11:30 - 13:00
Seminarraum 14 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
Wednesday
26.04.
15:00 - 16:30
Hörsaal 8 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
Wednesday
03.05.
15:00 - 16:30
Hörsaal 8 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
Monday
08.05.
11:30 - 13:00
Seminarraum 14 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
Wednesday
10.05.
15:00 - 16:30
Hörsaal 8 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
Monday
15.05.
11:30 - 13:00
Seminarraum 14 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
Wednesday
17.05.
15:00 - 16:30
Hörsaal 8 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
Monday
22.05.
11:30 - 13:00
Seminarraum 14 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
Wednesday
24.05.
15:00 - 16:30
Hörsaal 8 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
Monday
29.05.
11:30 - 13:00
Seminarraum 14 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
Wednesday
31.05.
15:00 - 16:30
Hörsaal 8 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
Wednesday
07.06.
15:00 - 16:30
Hörsaal 8 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
Monday
12.06.
11:30 - 13:00
Seminarraum 14 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
Wednesday
14.06.
15:00 - 16:30
Hörsaal 8 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
Monday
19.06.
11:30 - 13:00
Seminarraum 14 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
Wednesday
21.06.
15:00 - 16:30
Hörsaal 8 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
Monday
26.06.
11:30 - 13:00
Seminarraum 14 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
Wednesday
28.06.
15:00 - 16:30
Hörsaal 8 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
Information
Aims, contents and method of the course
Assessment and permitted materials
Evaluation consists of three components:(20%) A group presentation of a research paper
(40%) A midterm exam
(40%) The submission of an original research proposalThe group presentation will assess how effectively the ideas contained in a research paper are conveyed to the audience. To this end, I will evaluate- Precision in exposition
- Competence: how well the research, its strength and limits, is understood, and how questions are answered
- Clarity: how easy it is for the audience to understand the content of the paper
- Professionalism: how the presentation is builtA good research proposal will be one that includes
- an original research question
- a decent motivation for why such question might be interesting
- a placement of the question in the literature on the subject
- a plan of how the question is supposed to be answeredThe research proposal could be used as a starting point for a Master Thesis but need not be.
(40%) A midterm exam
(40%) The submission of an original research proposalThe group presentation will assess how effectively the ideas contained in a research paper are conveyed to the audience. To this end, I will evaluate- Precision in exposition
- Competence: how well the research, its strength and limits, is understood, and how questions are answered
- Clarity: how easy it is for the audience to understand the content of the paper
- Professionalism: how the presentation is builtA good research proposal will be one that includes
- an original research question
- a decent motivation for why such question might be interesting
- a placement of the question in the literature on the subject
- a plan of how the question is supposed to be answeredThe research proposal could be used as a starting point for a Master Thesis but need not be.
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
The course aims at introducing the students to the tools and topics of empirical and quantitative research in Labor and Macroeconomics. Particular emphasis will be put on how to look at theories and data together, and on how to answer economic questions making use of both. By the end of the course, students are expected to have acquired a good understanding of when the most widespread empirical methods can and should be used, what are the main economic theories of inequality in labor markets and what implications these have for our interpretation of the data.
Examination topics
The lecture comprises 4 hours per week covering both theory and exercises.
Reading list
- "Mostly Harmless Econometrics: An Empiricist's Companion", by Joshua D. Angrist and Jörn-Steffen Pischke
Association in the course directory
Last modified: Mo 07.09.2020 15:28
1.a) Economics and Data
1.b) Empirical Methodologies
1.c) Applications of Empirical Methods
1.d) Inequality in Economics2) Macroeconomic theories of the Labor Market
2.a) Search models
2.b) Applications of Search models