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Summer Quarter 2021, Graduate Program at the University of Bonn.

We start on April 14th 2021 and meet Wednesdays between 12:15-15:45 for online lecture using ZOOM.

We will conduct all course communications using the bonn-econ-teaching Zulip chat, so please be sure to join us there. To join the Zulip organization, please click on the button below.

Lecture Plan¶

Date	Topic
04/14/20	Kickoff: Introduction to the economics of human capital
04/21/20	Returns to schooling
04/28/20	Static model of educational choice
05/05/20	Syntopical reading of Lagakos & al. (2018)
05/12/20	Dynamic model of human capital accumulation
05/19/20	Dies Academicus, office hours
05/26/20	Pentecost holidays
06/02/20	Tutorials

Lectures¶

The core lectures are available here.

Guest lectures¶

We are lucky to draw on a set of guest lecturers for our different topics.

segsell on grmpy

Sebastian Gsell will host a tutorial on the grmpy package to explore some selected issues in the static model of educational choice.

Kickoff¶

Introduction to the NLSY79

I present an overview on the NLSY79 dataset as we will encounter numerous empirical analysis based on the it throughout the course.

Syntopical reading¶

Reading scientific papers

We discuss the research reported in Lagakos & al. (2018) in detail, trying to deduce some general lessons on how to read scientific papers in general.

References¶

Lagakos, D., Moll, B., Porzio, T., Qian, N., & Schoellman, T. (2018). Life cycle wage growth across countries. Journal of Political Economy, 126(2), 797-849.