Classroom Sessions: Tuesday and Thursday, 12:35am-1:50, Stevenson 436.
Office Hours: Wednesday, 10am to 12 and by appointment, Stevenson 427.
Weekly Help Sessions: Wednesday, 1pm to 2, Fell 116.
Final Examination: Tuesday, December 9 at 3:10pm, Stevenson 436.
Here is a copy of the course syllabus (pdf).
Time Allocation, Labor Supply, Applications
"Here Comes the Rain Again: Weather and Intertemporal Substitution of Leisure," Marie Connolly, Journal of Labor Economics, January 2008.
"The Future of Leisure that Never Arrived," by Hal Varian, New York Times, March 2007.
"The Quiet Revolution That Transformed Women's Employment, Education, and Family," by Claudia Goldin, American Economic Review, May 2006.
"Giving Day-Care Cash to Stay-at-Home Parents Sounds Like Politics to Some Canadians," by Elena Cherney, Wall Street Journal, July 2006.
"Tax-Free Benefits for Commuting Lure Employees," byAnjali Athavaley, Wall Street Journal, December 2007.
"Sleep Is the New Status Symbol For Successful Entrepreneurs," Nancy Jeffrey, Wall Street Journal, April 1999.
"Busy Staffers Are Taking More Time Off of Work," Sue Shellenbarger, Wall Street Journal, September 1998.
"Incentive Effects of the US Welfare System: A Review," Robert Moffit, Journal of Economic Literature, March 1992.
Production, Labor Demand, Related Applications
"The Effects of Hurricane Katrina on the New Orleans Economy," Michael Dolfman, Solidelle Fortier Wasser and Bruce Bergman, Monthly Labor Review, June 2007.
"Productivity, Technical Change and Labor Relations in Transportation Industries," Daniel Rich, Research in Transportation Economics, 2004.
"The Effect of Employee Benefits on the Demand for Part-Time Workers," Mark Montgomery and James Cosgrove, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, October 1993.
"Tax Credits for Employment Rather than Investment," Jonathan Kesselman, Samuel Williamson and Ernst Berndt, American Economic Review, June 1977.
Human Capital Investments, Productivity and Pay
"Firms, Schools Team Up On Training Programs," by Melissa Korn, Wall Street Journal, November 2007.
"Those Low Grades in College May Haunt Your Job Search," by David Koeppel, New York Times, December 2006.
"Testing Some Predictions of Human Capital Theory: New Training Evidence from Britain," Alison Booth and Mark Bryan, Review of Economics and Statistics, May 2005.
"The impact of community college retraining on older displaced workers: Should we teach old dogs new tricks?" Louis Jacobson, Robert J. LaLonde, and Daniel Sullivan, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, April 2005.
"Incentives in Organizations, Robert Gibbons, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 1998.
Labor Topics: Immigration, Health Care, Unemployment
"Firms Step In to Help Cover Relocation Costs," by Alex Frangos, Wall Street Journal, November 2007.
"The U.S. Health Care System and Labor Markets," Brigitte Madrian, National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper, January 2006.
"Age Counts in Hiring, the Older Jobless Find," by John W. Fountain, New York Times, November 2002.
"Lessons from the U.S. Unemployment Insurance Experiments," Bruce Meyer, Journal of Economic Literature, March 1995.
"The Economics of Immigration," George Borjas, Journal of Economic Literature, December 1994.