Material for EC3044: Economics of Human Resources 

Classes: 

Notes from Class 1

Notes from Class 2

Notes from Class 3

Notes from Class 4

Recommended Readings

Weiss 1995

Brown and Sessions 2006

Levacic and Vignoles 2002

Gibbons and Machin 2006

Heckman 2006

Greenaway and Haynes 2003

Dearden, L., Fitzsimons, E., Goodman, A. and Kaplan, G. (2008)

Epple, D. Romano, R. and Sieg, H. (2008)

Bok and Bowen (1998) Chapter 9

Readings: Topic 2: Human Capital Theory

                            The material from the first lecture can be found in:: Heckman, J., L. Lochner, and P. Todd (2003, May). Fifty years of Mincer earnings regressions. NBER. WP 9732, available on the library catalogue (http://www.nber.org/papers/w9732). This is a very long paper where the only the relevant  part is section 2.

                                Rosen 1976

                                Willis and Rosen 1979

                Topic 3: Education and Labour Markets

                                Harmon and Walker 1995

                                Harmon and Walker 2000

Harmon, Oosterbeek and Walker 2003

                Topic 4: The Production of Education

                               You can also look at Hanushek E., Publicly Provided Education, NBER Working Paper No. 8799 (http://www.nber.org/papers/w8799), although this is a quite extensive paper you can read only the sections: Efficiency of Production and Results of Production Function Estimation for the United States

                                Hanushek 1986

                                Lazear 2001

                Topic 5: The Market for Primary and Secondary Education

                                Hanushek 2003

                                Krueger 2003

               

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