CoURSE in EconomiCS of
EDUCATION – academic year
2010-2011
Facoltŕ di Scienze
Politiche - Universitŕ degli Studi di Milano
prof.Daniele
CHECCHI - office
hours:
Daniele Checchi – Monday
9.30-12.30 – Presidenza, 1° floor
email
daniele.checchi@unimi.it tel.02-5032-1519 fax 02-5032-1505 web page http: checchi.economia.unimi.it
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mod |
# hrs |
DATe |
TIME |
ROOM
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ARGUMENT OF THE CLASS
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1 |
2 |
Tuesday
25/1 |
14.30-16.30 |
23 |
What is the economics of education about ? |
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1 |
4 |
Wednesday
26/1 |
14.30-16.30 |
23 |
Empirical evidence on education (OECD 2010) |
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1 |
6 |
Monday 31/1 |
14.30-16.30 |
23 |
Demand for education (Checchi Chpt.2) |
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1 |
8 |
Tuesday
1/2 |
16.30-18.30 |
23 |
Demand for education (Checchi Chpt.2) |
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1 |
10 |
Wednesday
1/2 |
16.30-18.30 |
23 |
Liquidity constraints (Checchi chpt.2) |
|
1 |
12 |
Monday
8/2 |
14.30-16.30 |
23 |
Liquidity constraints (Checchi chpt.2) |
|
1 |
14 |
Tuesday
9/2 |
14.30-16.30 |
23 |
Signalling e screening
(Checchi chpt.2) |
|
1 |
16 |
Tuesday 9/2 |
16.30-18.30 |
23 |
Signalling e screening
(Checchi chpt.2) |
|
1 |
18 |
Monday
14/2 |
14.30-16.30 |
23 |
Production of education (Checchi chpt.4) |
|
1 |
20 |
Wednesday
16/2 |
12.45-14.45 |
23 |
Production of education (Checchi chpt.4) |
|
2 |
22 |
Monday 21/2 |
14.30-16.30 |
23 |
Education financing
(Checchi chpt.5) |
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2 |
24 |
Tuesday
22/2 |
14.30-16.30 |
23 |
Education financing (Checchi chpt.5) |
|
2 |
26 |
Wednesday
23/2 |
14.30-16.30 |
23 |
The return to education (Checchi chpt.6) |
|
2 |
28 |
Monday 28/2 |
14.30-16.30 |
23 |
The return to education
(Checchi chpt.6) |
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2 |
30 |
Tuesday
1/3 |
10.30-12.30 |
23 |
presentation – tracking |
|
2 |
32 |
Wednesday
2/3 |
14.30-16.30 |
23 |
presentation – tracking |
|
2 |
34 |
Monday 14/3 |
14.30-16.30 |
23 |
presentation – mobility |
|
2 |
36 |
Tuesday
15/3 |
10.30-12.30 |
23 |
presentation – mobility |
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2 |
38 |
Wednesday
16/3 |
14.30-16.30 |
23 |
presentation – private schooling |
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2 |
40 |
Monday 21/3 |
14.30-16.30 |
23 |
presentation – private schooling |
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PROVISIONAL
DATES for tests
(students should check with the official website) |
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Friday
8/4/11 |
16.30-18.30 |
check |
written exam |
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Friday
6/5/11 |
16.30-18.30 |
check |
written exam |
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Tuesday
21/6/11 |
16.30-18.30 |
check |
written exam |
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Friday
8/7/11 |
16.30-18.30 |
check |
written exam |
Class presentations
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post-graduate students |
international exchange |
doctorands |
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ü Marenghi |
ü Kaiser ü Yinlian ü Wu ü Zheng |
ü Broccini ü Borgna ü Hossain ü Ertunc |
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Reading list
The aim of the course is to investigate the
determinants of educational choices. On the demand side the course explores the
basic models of human capital accumulation and signalling, both under the
hypotheses of perfect and imperfect financial markets. On the supply side
alternative models of education financing (like private-public,
integration-segregation) are discussed, investigating the implications in terms
of intergenerational persistence. Additional readings are proposed in the
second part of the course, in order to take students to the frontier of
economic research.
Web page
http://checchi.economia.unimi.it/nopdf/prog6.htm
Module 1 -
Programme
empirical evidence on educational choices (OECD 2010)
human capital investment (Checchi chpt.2)
signalling e screening (Checchi chpt.2)
liquidity constraints (Checchi chpt.2)
production of education (Checchi chpt.4)
education financing (Checchi chpt.5)
Module 2 -
Programme
public or private (Checchi chpt.5)
the return to education (Checchi chpt.6)
intergenerational persistence (Checchi chpt.7)
Reading list
OECD, Education
at a glance, Paris 2010
D.Checchi. The economics of education. Human
capital, family background and inequality. Cambridge University Press 2005
(chapter 2, chapter 4, chapter 5, chapter 6 and chapter 7)
Additional materials will be presented using specific
papers, to be indicated as further readings during the course.
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A student is expected to possess the basic notions of
utility maximisation and rational choice, as obtained by any course of
microeconomics or labour economics.
The exam is made of two parts: a written essay and an oral
exam. In the oral part the student is required to present a paper, which is
then thoroughly discussed in a written essay, where an empirical paper is
presented in its main claims, and the underlying hypotheses are discussed.
Students are strongly encouraged
to attend classes on the use of statistical packages for the analysis of
empirical data. A crush course of 10 lectures on the use of GRETEL will be
offered in association to the course of labour economics 1 (second term).