This course aims to help students develop an understanding of basic statistical tools. At the end of this course students are expected to apply basic statistical techniques such as extracting/collecting data from data sources, analyzing it, stating a hypothesis and performing statistical tests, and finally discussing the findings.
Intermediate Microeconomic Theory, (Undergraduate)
The study of theories of demand, production, competition, markets and welfare. Implications of theory for purposes of public policy prescriptions are given particular emphasis.
Introduction to Economics, Econ 1 (Undergraduate)
A survey of economics designed to give an overview of the field.
Labor Economics, (Undergraduate)
This course will analyze the economic forces that shape labor markets, institutions, and performance in the U.S., Japan, and at least one European country (usually Germany). Institutions examined include trade unions, legal regulations, and social conventions.
Labor Economics I , (PhD)
Labor Economics is the branch of economics that deals with how labor markets function. Topics covered will include labor supply, retirement, wage structure, inequality in earnings, discrimination, and labor market frictions. This course in one of two courses in nonsequential course offerings in graduate labor economics.
Economic Demography, (PhD)
This is an advanced course in economic demography. The first part of the course focuses on basic demographic methods, such as lifetables, hazard models, Cox proportional hazards, population projections, synthetic cohorts, and population theory. It also introduces students to popular demographic measures such as indices of fertility and population growth. The second part of the class teaches the economic and labor market impacts of demographic changes, the economic factors that influence fertility, migration, health, and mortality, the economic challenges of aging populations and the effects of population growth. While the first part of the class focuses on economic demography methods, the second part focuses on the current economic research.
Microeconomic Theory for Applications, (Masters)
For Masters of Science students only. Modern approaches to the theory of the firm, the theory of the consumer, and formal relationships among the various economic functions developed using dual approaches to the optimization of objectives such as profit maximization, utility maximization and cost minimization. Introduction to game theory, and market analysis through classical/neoclassical and game theoretic approaches.
Selected Topics in Economics, Economic Demography, (Undergraduate)
A general introduction to economic demography, addressing the following kinds of questions: What are the economics consequences of immigration to the U.S? Will industrial nations be able to afford the health and pension costs of the aging population? How has the size of the baby boom affected economic well being? Why has fertility been high in the Third World countries? In industrial countries, why is marriage postponed? divorce high? fertility low? extra marital fertility rising? What are the economic and environmental consequences of rapid population growth?