Syllabus

Potential Paper Topics

Data

• CPS-06.dta -Data taken from the March rotation of the 2006 Current Population Survey in STATA format.

• Data definitions -for the CPS-02.dta data set.

• Major Occupation Codes for CPS-06 data set.

• Occupation Codes for CPS-06 data set.

• CBSA-Definitions for CPS data set.

• Industry Codes for CPS-06 data set.

• School.do -File for calculating years of schooling from categorical data.

• School2.do -File for creating education dummy variables.

• Concentration Ratios.

• Salary-Experience -Class example for regressions.

• UCLA STATA Lab -A useful web site for beginning stata users.

Problem Sets (Files in PDF format, Adobe Acrobat required.  Also, to properly view some of the files, special mathematical fonts may be required.)

• Problem Set #1 (Key)

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• Problem Set #14 (Key)

Selected Readings

• Robert Moffitt, Incentive Effects of the U.S. Welfare System: A Review.

• Lawrence Katz and Alan B. Krueger, The Effect of the Minimum Wage on the Fast Food Industry.

• David Card, Do Minimum Wages Reduce Employment? A Case Study of California, 1987-89.

• David Card, Using Regional Variation in Wages to Measure the Effects of the Federal Minimum Wage. 

• David Card and Alan B. Krueger, Minimum Wages and Employment: A Case Study of the Fast Food Industry in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

• Richard B. Berman, The Crippling Flaws in the New Jersey Fast Food Study.

• David Neumark and William Wascher, The Effect of New Jersey's Minimum Wage Increase on Fast Food Employment: A Re-Evaluation Using Payroll Records.

• David Card and Alan B. Krueger, A Reanalysis of the New Jersey Minimum Wage Increase on the Fast Food Industry with Representative Payroll Data.

• Taeil Kim and Lowell J. Taylor, The Employment Effect in Retail Trade of California's 1988 Minimum Wage Increase.

• Deere, Murphy and Welch, Employment and the 1990-1991 Minimum-Wage Hike.

• Gary S. Becker, Investment in Human Capital: A Theoretical Analysis.

• Sherwin Rosen, Hedonic Prices and Implicit Markets: Product Differentiation in Pure Competition.

• Sherwin Rosen,The Economics of Superstars.

• Michael Spence, Job Market Signaling.

• Andrew Weiss, Human Capital vs. Signalling Explanations of Wages.

• Aigner and Cain, Statistical Theories of Discrimination in Labor Markets.

• Ronald Oaxaca, Male-Female Wage Differentials in Urban Labor Markets.

• Juhn, Murphy and Pierce, Wage Inequality and the Rise in Returns to Skill.