David Autor

Classes

14.03 Intermediate Applied Microeconomics
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14.662 Graduate Labor Economics II
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Spring 2018
Topic 1: An Overview of Topics and Questions (slides)

Topic 2: The Canonical Model of Skill Differential (slides)
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Topic 3: Educational Production and Wage Structure (slides)
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Topic 4: Skills, Tasks and technologies (slides)
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Topic 5: Superstars and Mediocrities (slides)
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Topic 6: Organizational Structure and Market Structure (slides)
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Topic 7: Trade and Labor Markets (slides)
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Topic 8: Ricardian Models and Empirical Evidence (slides)
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Topic 9: The Importance of Place (slides)

Topic 10: Three Perspectives on Labor Market Equilibrium (slides)

Other "Vintage" Topics from 14.662
Topic 1: The Evolution of Gender Roles (slides)

Topic 2: Institutions, Norms, Collective Bargaining and Worker Productivity (slides)

Topic 3: Job Loss and Job Search (slides)
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Topic 4: Self-Selection: The Roy Model (slides)
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Topic 5: Discrimination and Learning (slides)
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Topic 6: Wage Density Decompositions (slides)
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14.663 Advanced Topics in Labor Economics (Spring 2009)
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Topic 1: Self-Selection in the Labor Market (slides)
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Topic 2: Discrimination in the Labor Market (slides)
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Topic 3: Discrimination in the Labor Market Part II - Learning Models (slides)
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Topic 4: Group Differences in Economic Outcomes (slides)
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Topic 5: Segregation, Market Outcomes and Individual Impacts (slides)
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Topic 6: Social (Non-Market) Interactions (slides)
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Topic 7: Fairness and Norms (slides)
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14.661 Graduate Labor Economics I (Fall 2003)
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Topic 1: Theories of the Provision and Payment of General Skills Training (Lecture Notes)

Topic 2: Firm Specific Human Capital: Theory and Evidence (Lecture Notes)

Topic 3: Efficiency Wages, the Shapiro-Stiglitz model (Lecture Notes)

Topic 4: Efficiency Wages, Neoclassical and Non-Neoclassical Evidence (Lecture Notes)

Topic 5: Monitoring, Measurement and Risk (Lecture Notes)

Topic 6: Self-Selection - The Roy Model (Lecture Notes)

Topic 7: Market Signaling - Theory and Evidence (Lecture Notes)

Topic 8: The Economics of Discrimination - Theory (Lecture Notes)

Topic 9: The Economics of Discrimination - Evidence (Lecture Notes)

Topic 10: The Economics of Immigration (Lecture Notes)