- ECON 471 Syllabus
- Notes & Readings for my sessions will be made available here. Please check back.
- Readings for week 1-3:
- Botticini, Maristella, and Aloysius Siow. 2003. "Why Dowries?" The American Economic Review, 93 (4): 1385-1398.
- Card, David, and Ana Rute Cardoso. 2012. "Can Compulsory Military Service Raise Civilian Wages? Evidence from the Peacetime Draft in Portugal." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 4 (4): 57-93.
- Christian, Cornelius. 2017. "Lynchings, Labour, and Cotton in the US South: A Reappraisal of Tolnay and Beck." Explorations in Economic History, 66: 106-116.
- Devereux, Kevin. 2018. "Identifying the Value of Teamwork: Application to Professional Tennis." Manuscript.
- Dippel, Christian. 2014. "Forced Coexistence and Economic Development: Evidence From Native American Reservations" Econometrica, 82 (6): 2131-2165.
- Louis-Philippe Morin. 2015. "Do Men and Women Respond Differently to Competition? Evidence from a Major Education Reform." Journal of Labor Economics, 33 (2): 443-491.
- Nunn, Nathan. 2008. "The Long-term Effects of Africa's Slave Trades." The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 123 (1): 139-176.
- Readings for weeks 10-11:
- Bertrand, Marianne, Emir Kamenica, and Jessica Pan. 2015. "Gender Identity and Relative Income within Households." Quarterly Journal of Economics, 130(2): 571-614.
- Campante, R. Filipe, and Davin Chor. 2012. "Schooling, Political Participation, and the Economy." Review of Economics and Statistics, 94 (4): 841-859.
- Campante, R. Filipe, and Davin Chor. 2012. "Why was the Arab World Poised for Revolution? Schooling, Economic Opportunities, and the Arab Spring." Journal of Economic Perspectives, 26 (2): 167-188.
- Jenq, Christina, Jessica Pan, and Walter Theseira. 2015. "Beauty, Weight, and Skin Color in the Charitable Market." Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 119: 234-253.
- Cortes, Patricia and Jessica Pan. 2015. "The Relative Quality of Foreign Nurses in the United States." Journal of Human Resources, 50(4): 1009-1050.
- Nunn, Nathan, and Leonard Wantchekon. 2011. "The Slave Trade and the Origins of Mistrust in Africa." The American Economic Review, 101 (7): 3221-52.
- Nunn, Nathan, and Diego Puga. 2012."Ruggedness: The Blessing of Bad Geography in Africa." Review of Economics and Statistics, 94 (1): 20-36.
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