Labor Economics, First Mini, Fall 2016

Important Issues of Our Time

Tuesday September 6^th Shimer 2012, JME “Wage Rigidities and Jobless Recoveries”

Thursday September 8^th Rendahl 2016, ReStud “Fiscal Policy in an Unemployment Crisis’

Tuesday September 13^th Heathcote and Perri 2016 “Wealth and Volatility”

Thursday September 15^nd ?

Tuesday September 20^th Heathcote and Perri 2016 “Capital Controls and Competitiveness”

Tuesday September 29^th Chetty, Hendren, Kline, and Saez 2014, QJE “Where is the Land of Opportunity“

Thursday September 29^th Heathcote, Perri, and Violante 2010, RED “Unequal We Stand”

Tuesday October 4^th Daly, Hryshko, Manovskii 2016 “Reconciling Estimates of Earnings Processes in Growth Rates and Levels”

Thursday October 6^th Badel 2016 “A Racial Inequality Trap”

Tuesday October 11^th Moro and Norman 2003, JPubE “Affirmative Action in a Competitive Economy”

Thursday October 13^th Cai and Heathcote 2016 “College Tuition and Income Inequality”

Thursday October 18^th Caucutt and Lochner 2012 “Early and Late Human Capital Investments, Borrowing Constraints and the Family”

Tuesday October 20^th Glover, Krueger, Heathcote and Rios-Rull 2015 “Intergenerational Redistribution in the Great Recession”