Edwin Leuven

Course Info

Lecturers: Marc Gurgand (MG) and Edwin Leuven (EL)

• Syllabus

Lecture Slides

• Week 1 (MG) - Human Capital Theory
• Week 2 (MG) - Returns to Schooling
• class presentation
• Week 3 (MG) - Demand for Education and Liquidity Constraints
• class presentation
• Week 4 (MG) - Public provision, school choice and vouchers
• class presentation 1
• class presentation 2
• class presentation 3
• Week 5 (MG) - Economic growth and externalities
• class presentation
• Week 6 (EL) - How education affects health and crime
• Lochner, L. and E. Moretti (2004) "The Effect of Education on Criminal Activity: Evidence from Prison Inmates, Arrests and Self-Reports", American Economic Review 94(1) (JSTOR)
• class presentation
• Week 7 - (EL) Incentives
• Eric P. Bettinger (2008) "Paying to Learn: The Effect of Financial Incentives on Elementary School Test Scores" (pdf)
• class presentation
• Week 8 - (EL) Class size and resources
• P. Bressoux, F. Kramarz, C. Prost (2009), "Teachers' Training, Class Size, and Students' Outcomes: Learning from Administrative Forecasting Mistakes" Economic Journal, March, 119, 540-561. (pdf)
• class presentation
• Week 9 - (EL) Teachers
• Dee, T.S. (2004). "Teachers, Race, and Student Achievement in a Randomized Experiment." Review of Economics and Statistics 86(1), 195-210. (link)
• Van Ewijk, R. (2009). "Same work, lower grade? Student ethnicity and teachers' subjective asessments", Mimeo, University of Amsterdam. (pdf)
• class presentation
• Week 10 - (EL) Early Schooling
• Baker, M., J. Gruber, and K. Milligan. (2008) "Universal Childcare, Maternal Labour Supply, and Family Well-Being" Journal of Political Economy 116(4): 709-745. (pdf)
• class presentation
• Week 11 - (EL) Peer effects
• Angrist, J.D. and K. Lang, (2004). "Does School Integration Generate Peer Effects? Evidence from Boston's Metco Program," American Economic Review 94(5), pp 1613-1634 (link)
• class presentation