This course focuses on 1) deriving testable and quantifiable hypotheses from mathematical economic models relating to prominent policy-relevant issues in the labor market; 2) ascertaining the statistical patterns that permit identification of the parameters that govern these models; and 3) forming estimators that permit statistical inference of these parameters. The models considered are drawn from a variety of labor market contexts: static and dynamic labor supply and demand decisions, human capital investment decisions, spatial equilibrium in labor markets, and worker-firm matching with heterogeneous workers and firms.
