Class Meeting Times
Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session
Recitations: 1 session / week, 1.5 hours / session
Prerequisites
The prerequisites for this course are 14.04 Intermediate Microeconomic Theory and 14.32 Econometrics.
Course Format
The course was divided into two halves. Prof. Josh Angrist taught the first part, and Prof. Daron Acemoglu taught the second part.
Class Requirements
Grades are based on four problem sets, an emperical project involving replication and extension of published work, and a three-hour final during exam week. In addition, there are two ungraded problem sets, one at the beginning and one at the end of the course.
| ACTIVITY | POINTS |
|---|---|
| Four problem sets | 10 |
| Empirical project | 30 |
| Final exam | 40 |
Books
O.Ashenfelter and R. Layard. The Handbook of Labor Economics. Vol. 1. North-Holland, 1987. ISBN: 9780444878564.
J. Angrist and Jörn-Steffen Pischke. Mostly Harmless Econometrics: An Empiricist's Companion. Princeton University Press, 2008. ISBN: 9780691120355.
— — —. Mastering 'Metrics: The Path from Cause to Effect. Princeton University, 2014. ISBN: 9780691152844.
P. Cahuch, Stéphane Carcillo, and André Zylberberg. Labor Economics, Second Edition. MIT Press, 2014. ISBN: 9780262027700.
You may also want to consult the 
lecture notes (PDF - 2.3MB) by Daron Acemoglu and David Autor, though these do not cover all our material.