Economics Junior Seminars

These Faculty-led seminars are designed to introduce students to research in a particular area of economics and to prepare students to undertake their own research projects. All junior seminars require a major research paper; the prerequisites are intermediate microeconomic and macroeconomic theory, statistics, and econometrics (concurrent enrollment in econometrics is sufficient). Junior seminars therefore satisfy both the writing requirement and the theory prerequisite requirement for the Economics concentration. Each seminar is limited to 16 participants with preference given to honors Economics and Applied Math/Economics concentrators in their junior year. Enrollment will be determined by a lottery based on student preferences, although faculty will be given the option to reserve up to two spaces in their seminars to be assigned as they wish (e.g., to non-concentrators, to students in their senior year, to students who have already taken a seminar).

Eleven junior seminars will be offered in 2007-2008:

• Ec 980b: Women, Work, and the Family: Present and Past
  Prof. Claudia Goldin, MW 1-2:30
• Ec 980c: The Economics of World Migration
  Prof. Jeffrey Williamson, W 2:30-4:30
• Ec 980k: Religion and Political Economy
  Prof Robert Barro, W 2:00-4:00
• Ec 980l: Macroecnomics and Politics
  Prof Emmanuele Farhi, T 2:00-4:00
• Ec 980n: How Do We Fight Poverty
  Prof Alesina, T 2:00-4:00
• Ec 980m: Market Design
  Prof. Susan Athey, W 4:00-6:00, Rm Littauer 219
  

• Ec 980f: Economics of Social Problems
  Prof. Larry Katz, MW 1-2:30
• Ec 980g: Topics in Economics Development
  Profs. Michael R. Kremer and Erica M. Field, Th 4-6:00
  
• Ec 980h: The Industrial Organization of Health Care
  Prof. Frank, W 2-4:00
• Ec 980j: Europe and the US: Comparative Economic Analysis
  Prof. Fuchs-Schuendeln, W 3-5:00
• Ec 980o: Health, Eduction and Development, Erica Field, T TH 10-11:30

The lottery for the spring term seminars takes place during the fall-term exam period. Students who have taken a seminar in the fall semester will be admitted to a spring seminar on a space-available basis.

The spring-term lottery form will be due to Rebecca Aguirre (Littauer 110) by 5pm on Thursday, January 24 (the first day of classes is Wednesday, January 30th). If you will be unable to physically turn in the form by this deadline, you may email your preferences to Rebecca Aguirre (rfaguirr@fas.harvard.edu).

There will be no shopping of junior seminars. We encourage you to review the course syllabi ahead of time. Syllabi of the Spring-term seminars will be available on course websites (the links are above) by Wednesday, January 16th.

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