ECO336 Week 1: September 7 & 9
What We’ll Be Discussing This Week
Tuesday:
- Course requirements and expectations.
- What is Economics All About?
- Why Study Women in an Economics Class?
- How to think in this class: policy, policy, policy.
- Introduction: Blau/Ferber/Winkler (2010) Chapter 1, pages 2 - 6.
- Women and Men: Changing Roles in a Changing Society : Blau/Ferber/Winkler Chapter 2: pp. 12 – 26.
Thursday:
- Choice, Structures of Constraint
- Sex versus Gender
- Economic Definitions
Powerpoint Presentation for First Week
What You Should Read (by Thursday):
- Vonnegut, Kurt “Harrison Bergeron.”
- Women's Rights and Poverty
- Gneezy and Aldo Rustichini. 2004. “Gender and Competition at a Young Age.”
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