ECON 7340

Empirical Methods in Public Economics

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2015-2016 Catalog.

This is a second year PhD course in public economics, with primary focus on political economy. The course aims to serve two purposes: (1) to cover in detail various methods used in empirical microeconomics research; and (2) to give an overview of topics in empirical political economy. Empirical methodologies will include non-experimental approaches, experiments, natural experiments, and structural methods. Applications will be primarily in political economy, but occasionally papers from other fields of economics such as industrial organization, labor economics, and development economics. Grades will be based on a research proposal, mock referee reports, and presentation.

Prerequisites/Corequisites Prerequisite: completion of economics graduate core. Recommended prerequisite: ECON 7380.

When Offered Spring.

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