Economics 448
Human resources
and Economic Growth
Fall
2016
Department of Economics
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Problem Sets
Lab
Data
Practice Problems
Better Histogram
Data:
Income
Inequality US
A Guide to Statistics
on Historical Trends in Income Inequality
Handouts
Returns to Scale and
Change of Variable
Solow Equations
Regression
Linear regression (S13)
HK share of wages Weil examples: Handout on Calculations,
Table 6.2 data, Fig. 6.9, Fig. 6.10
Past Exams
S13 Exam 2
S13 Exam 3 Question(Question I
and others not included in Fall 2016)
Interesting Links
Prof. Robert Gordon on The
Rise and Fall of American Economic Growth (LinkedIn 11-19-16)
Angus Deaton Presentation
Poor Economics ,
Banerjee and Duflo
Why Nations Fail
(blog) by D. Acemoglu and J. Robinson
Additional
items
Week 1 D.
Acemoglu Ch.
1 lecture (selected pages) of his book "Introduction to
Economic Growth," Princeton University Press 2008
Instrumental
Variables Handout
Exam information:
Date Room
Interesting Articles/Posts/Blogs
Population
The
Youth
Bulge: A demographic Dividend or Bomb in Developing
Countries?
by Justin Jifu Lin , World Bank
Chief Economist, 2-5-2012
Population
Pyramids of the World
Health
Additional articles on Health and Economic Development can
be found at:
http://www.paho.org/english/hdp/hdd/agendaplus.pdf
Interesting Syllabus
Other:
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