Fall 2026

Human Resources and Economic Growth

Analyzes public and private investment in people and its impact on economic growth.

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Summary

1 / 5

One historical review notes the material is not difficult and grades are easy, while others report high difficulty due to a disconnect between course components and exams.

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Prerequisites

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ECON 301 or 311

ECON 448

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Professors

Fall 2026

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Historical instructors & teaching patterns

Historical reviews for Maria Muniagurria describe her as easy to get high grades from, though the material is considered incredibly boring and difficult to stay interested in.

JAMES R WALKER is recorded teaching in Fall 2012, Fall 2013, Spring 2014, Fall 2014. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

MARIA MUNIAGURRIA is recorded teaching in Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Fall 2016, Spring 2023. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

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Calendar & sections

Fall 2026

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Student experience

the class

Historical reviews describe the course as incredibly boring with poor lecture quality, though one instructor offered easy grades while another had no connection between lectures and exams.

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2014: 2.90 GPA, 22.0% A/AB (n=41 letter grades); Fall 2016: 3.32 GPA, 47.2% A/AB (n=36 letter grades); Spring 2023: 3.10 GPA, 48.4% A/AB (n=31 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

One historical review notes the material is not difficult and grades are easy, while others report high difficulty due to a disconnect between course components and exams.

Historical reviews of James Walker: Students found lectures frustrating, citing pointless stories and a lack of connection between homework, lectures, and exams, making it difficult to gauge the material's interest from class.

Topics

  • Education, training, health, and mobility.
  • Public and private investment in human capital.

Skills

  • Theoretical and empirical analysis of investment in people.
  • Analyzing contributions to productivity from education, training, health, and mobility.

Grades

Latest available · Spring 2023— not enough history to project Fall 2026.

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Where this course fits relative to

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About this comparison

1188 courses over the same term, each with at least 30 recorded letter grades. Cross-listed courses count once. GPA is not a measure of difficulty or teaching quality. The typical course is the median by recorded grade count; tied values are not counted as lower. Grade counts describe course scale, not unique students or typical section size.

Descriptions compare GPA with this group’s average: at least 0.20 higher or lower; otherwise close to average. Section size uses median recorded enrollment: small up to 30, mid-sized 31–99, large 100+. Lectures and discussion/lab sections are described separately.

Sources & history

UW–Madison

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Model outputs & technical records
nvidia/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4
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Model & dataset provenance
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