Women & the Labor Market

This is the course page for an upper division labor economics course that I created and taught at the University of California, Riverside between 2016-2022. A version of this course was taught to masters and undergraduate students at the University of Chicago during the 2018-2019 AY.

Course description:

Workers differ in many dimensions. In this course, we will focus on one: gender. This course is designed to provide students with a microeconomist’s toolbox to think about major themes related to women’s labor.

Fall 2021

Week 6: On external validity

The U.S. Is Just Different — So Let’s Stop Pretending We’re Not (Ep. 469) - FreakonomicsWe often look to other countries for smart policies on education, healthcare, infrastructure, etc. But can a smart policy be simply transplanted into a country as culturally unusual (and as supremely WEIRD) as America?

Archive: Winter 2021

Chart of the Week: Week 1 (Source: FRED St. Louis Fed)

Topical Tune: Week 1 (Source: YouTube)

Week 1 Supplemental (Totally Optional) Media: The New York Times' The Daily

Closing the Restaurant That Was My Life for 20 Years

Chart of the Week: Week 2 (Source: OECD)

Topical Tune: Week 2 (Source: YouTube)-- a song for investing in your human capital by studying for Quiz 1

Week 2 Supplemental (Totally Optional) Media: Planet Money's The Indicator:

How Political Instability Affects the Economy

Week 9 Discussion Session with Liat Sabar from Matchmakers in the City: