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).

Eight junior seminars will be offered in 2008-2009:

• Ec 980b: The Economics of Career and Family
  Prof. Claudia Goldin, MW 1-2:30, Littauer M17
• Ec 980j: Europe and the US: Comparative Economic Analysis
  Prof. Fuchs-Schuendeln, W 3-5:00
• Ec 980l: Macroecnomics and Politics
  Prof Emmanuele Farhi, W 4:00-6:00
• Ec 980o: Health, Eduction and Development
  Erica Field, TH 2-4:00
• Ec 980q: Economic Design Lab
  Prof Mullainathan, Th 2:30-4:30

• Ec 980a: Political Economics
  Profs. Shleifer & Summers, Th 2:30-4:30
• Ec 980g: Topics in Economics Development
  Profs. Michael R. Kremer and Schundeln, Th 4-6:00
  
• Ec 980r: Household Finance
  Prof. Madrian, T 2-4:00

The lottery for the Fall term seminars takes place the week before classes start.

The fall-term lottery form will be due to Jeana Lee (Littauer 110) by 5pm on Wednesday, September 10th and results will be announced by 5:00pm Friday September 12th. The first meeting of Junior Seminars is the first week of classes. If you will be unable to physically turn in the form by this deadline, you may email your preferences to Jeana Lee (jzlee@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, September 3rd.

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