Spring 2027

The Economics of Growing-up and Getting Old

The Economics of Growing-Up and Getting Old uses economic models to investigate life cycle decisions including schooling, marriage, divorce, fertility, and retirement.

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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2019: 3.52 GPA, 68.2% A/AB (n=22 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Understand important empirical problems in social science (such as correlation vs causation, endogeneity, omitted variable bias) and tools for overcoming them

  • Understand important theoretical models of human behavior (such as game theory, signaling models, hyperbolic discounting) and how to apply them to particular environments

  • Understand important models of particular "life cycle" decisions (health, schooling, marrying, divorce, fertility)

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ECON 310

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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2019: 3.52 GPA, 68.2% A/AB (n=22 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Life cycle stages: early childhood, schooling, adolescence, marriage/divorce, fertility, retirement.
  • Theoretical models of human behavior such as game theory, signaling, and hyperbolic discounting.
  • Empirical problems in social science including correlation vs causation and endogeneity.

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  • Apply economic models to life cycle decisions and address empirical problems like endogeneity.

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Recorded 2026-10-14

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