The CWE Economic Research Training Course
Syllabus
The Chinese Women Economic Research Training Program
China Center for Economic Research, Peking University
June 6 – June 17, 2011
4. Reading materials
Professor Zhao Yaohui’s Lectures:
Lecture 1: Economics of aging, CHARLS and Health and Retirement Studies around the World
Lecture 2: How to use the CHARLS data (STATA lab session)
Lecture 3: Labor market discrimination: theory and measurement (STATA lab session)
Lecture 4: Returns to education, theory and estimation issues (STATA lab session)
Lecture 1: Economics of aging, CHARLS and Health and Retirement Studies around the World
Readings:
Robert Willis, “Aging in the U. S.: The Health and Retirement Study,” 2006
Why Population Aging Matters: A Global Perspective, NIA, NIH, USDHHS, USDS, 2007
CHARLS questionnaire
Lecture 2. How to Use the CHARLS Data
I. Registration
II. Data structure
III. Weights
IV. Linking household members
V. Linking children/parents
VI. Confidential data
Readings:
CHARLS Users Guide
Lecture 3: Labor Market Discrimination: Theory and Measurement
Lectures:
I. Theories of labor market discrimination
II. Empirical issues in measuring labor market discrimination
Computer Lab:
I. Oaxaca decomposition
I. Decompose wage differential by incorporating occupational attainment
II. Analyze changes in gender wage gap
Readings:
Blau. F. D. and L. M. Kahn, “Gender Differences in Pay,” Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 14, No. 4, 75-99, Fall, 2000
Oaxaca, R., 1973. “Male-Female Wage Differentials in Urban Labor Markets,” International Economic Review, 14: 693-709.
BjoÈrn Gustafsson, Shi Li, “Economic transformation and the gender earnings gap in urban China,” Journal of Population Economics (2000) 13: 305-329
Brown, R. S., M. Moom and B. S. Zoloth, 1980. “Incorporating Occupational Attainment in Studies of Male/Female Earnings Differentials,” Journal of Human Resources. 15: 3-28.
Meng, Xin and Junsen Zhang, “The Two-Tier Labor Market in Urban China: Occupational Segregation and Wage Differentials between Urban Residents and Rural Migrants in Shanghai,” Journal of Comparative Economics, 29, 485–504 (2001)
Blau, F. D. and L. M. Kahn, “Swimming Upstream: Trends in the Gender Wage Differential in the 1980s,” Journal of Labor Economics, vol. 15, no.1, pt. 1, 1-42, 1997.
Junsen Zhang, Jun Han and Pak-Wai Liu and Yaohui Zhao, “Trends in the Gender Earnings Differential in Urban China, 1988-2004,” Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Vol. 61, No. 2 (January 2008), 224-242.
Lecture 4: Returns to Education: Theory and Estimation Issues
Lecture:
I. The schooling decision
II. On the job training
III. Empirical issues
Computer lab:
I. Estimating returns to schooling
II. Ability bias and correction
Readings:
David, Card, "The Causal Effect of Education on Earnings," Handbook of Labor Economics, 1999, pp. 1802-1863.
Josh Angrist, “Lifetime Earnings and the Vietnam Era Draft Lottery: Evidence from Social Security Administrative Records,” American Economic Review, June 1990
Angrist, Joshua, and Alan Krueger. "Does Compulsory Schooling Attendance Affect Schooling and Earnings?" Quarterly Journal of Economics 106, no. 4 (November 1991): 979-1014.
“Schooling and Labor Market Consequences of School Construction in Indonesia: Evidence from an Unusual Policy Experiment,” Esther Duflo, American Economic Review, 2001, 795-813
Professor Dong Xiao-Yuan Lectures:
Lecture 1: A Yong Scholars’ Guide to Writing an Empirical Paper
Lecture 2: Causal Relations and Identification Methods (STATA session)
Lecture 3: Economics of Care: Theory and Empirical Issues (STATA session)
Lecture 4: Economic Analysis of Time-Use Data (STATA lab session)
Lecture 1: A Young Scholar’s Guide to Writing an Empirical Paper
References:
1. McCloskey, Deirdre, 2000. Economical Writing, Second Edition. Long Grove, Illinois: Waveland Press, Inc.
2. Wyrick, Thomas L. 2001. Chapter 12 The Economist’s Handbook: A Research and Writing Guide. New York: West Publishing Company.
3. Miller, Jane E. and Yana van der Meulen Rodgers, 2008. ”Economic Importance and Statistical Significance: Guidelines for Communicating Empirical Research.” Feminist Economics, 14(2): 117-149.
Writing Samples:
Package 1:
Dong, Xiao-Yuan and Zhang Liqin,Economic Transition and Gender Differentials in Wages and Productivity: Evidence from Chinese Manufacturing Enterprises. Journal of Development Economics, 88(1): 144-156, 2009
a. The first submission and the published version.
b. Referees’ reports
Package 2:
Du Fenglian and Dong Xiao-Yuan, Why Do Women Have Longer Durations of Unemployment than Men in Post-Restructuring Urban China? Cambridge Journal of Economics 33(2): 233-252, 2009
a. The first submission and the published version
b. Referees’ reports
Lecture 2: Causal Relations and Identification Methods
Angrist, Joshua D and Alan B. Kruger, “Empirical Strategies in Labor Economics.” Chapter 23 in O. Ashenfelter and D. Card, eds., Handbook of Labour Economics, Volume III, North Holland, 1999.
Angrist, Joshua D and Alan B. Kruger, “Instrumental Variable and the Search for Identification: From Supply and Demand to Natural Experiments”. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 15(4): 69-85, 2001.
Murray, Michael P. 2006. “Avoiding Invalid Instrument and Coping with Weak Instruments.” Journal of Economic Perspectives, 20(4): 111-132.
Wooldridge, Jeffrey M., 2002, Chapters 5 and 6 in Econometric Analysis of Cross-Section and Panel Data, Cambridge: The MIT Press.
Lecture 3: Economics of Care: Theory and Empirical Issues
Becker, Gary (1991). Chapters 1, 2 and 8 of A Treatise on the Family. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Badgett, M.V. Lee and Nancy Folbre, 1999. “Assigning Care: Gender Norms and Economic Outcomes.” International Labour Review, 138(3): 311-326.
Chiapori, Pierre-Andre, 1992. “Collective Labor Supply and Welfare.” Journal of Political Economy 100(3): 437-67.
Connelly Rachel, D.S. DeGraff, Deborah Levison and B.P. McCall. 2006. “Tackling the Endogeneity of Fertility in the Study of Women’s Employment in Developing Countries: Alternative Estimation Strategies Using Data from Urban Brazil.” Feminist Economics 12(4): 561-597.
Folbre, Nancy, and Julie Nelson (2000) “For Love or Money – or Both?” Journal of Economic Perspectives 14 (4): 123-140.
Razavi, Shahra. 2007. “The Political and Social Economy of Care in a Development Context.” Gender and Development Program Paper No. 3, United Nations Research Institute for Social Development.
Waldfogel, Jane.1998. “Understanding the ‘Family Gap’ in Pay for Women with Children.” The Journal of Economic Perspectives 12(1):137-156
董晓媛．照顾提供、性别平等与公共政策——女性主义经济学的视角．人口与发展，2009，（6）：61-68
Lecture 4: Economic Analysis of Time Use Data
Apps, Patricia F. 2003. Gender, Time Use and Models of the Household.” IZA Discussion paper No. 796.
Bardasi, Elena and Quentin Wodon. 2010. “Working Long Hours and Having No Choice: Time Poverty in Guinea.” Feminist Economics 16(3): 45 – 78.
Becker, Gary, 1965. “A Theory of the Allocation of Time.” Economic Journal, 75: 493-517.
Folbre, Nancy. 2004. “A Theory of the Misallocation of Time” in Folbre, N. and Bittman, M. (eds) Family Time: The Social Organization of Care, New York: Routledge, Ch. 1: 7-24.
Grounau, Robert. 1977. Leisure, Home Production, and Work – the Theory of the Allocation Revised.” Journal of Political Economy, 85: 1099-1124.
Sousa-Poza, Alfonso, Hans Schmit and Rolf Widmer. 2001. The Allocation and Value of Time Assigned to Housework and Childcare: An Analysis for Switzerland. Journal of Population Economics, 14: 599-618.
Stewart, Jay. 2009. “Tobit or Not Tobit?” IZA DP No. 4588.
United Nations. 2005. Guide to Producing Statistics on Time Use Measuring Paid and Unpaid Work, Part One: 1-30, Statistics Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs, New York.
Vickery, C. 1977. The Time Poor: A New Look at Poverty. Journal of Human Resources 12: 27-48.
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