Description

The focus of the course will be on understanding human capital and wage dynamics.

Christopher Taber received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1995. He started his academic career at Northwestern University and was there until 2007. He is currently the Walker Family Distinguished chair and the James J. Heckman Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research focuses on the development and implementation of econometric models of skill formation. His work on Human Capital includes studies of the effectiveness of Catholic schools and of voucher programs, the importance of borrowing constraints in college going decisions, estimation of lifecycle human capital investment models, and models with heterogeneous human capital. He also has a methodological side and has worked on non-experimental methods for evaluation. He has been editor-in-chief of the Journal of Labor Economics from 2007-2012 and of Quantitative Economics from 2017-2021.

The course is scheduled to run over 2 days with 9 lectures of 45-minutes. The course offers the students the possibility of presenting their work. This will take the form of either an office appointment with Professor Taber or a presentation during class. There is a substantial reading list in preparation for the course.

The course offers the possibility for students to present research ideas/papers in class. These can be at any stage from just ideas to complete papers. Each student will get around 10-15 min to present. PhD students from Aarhus are required to present to obtain ECTS. If you want to present, then sign up using the following link (just add name and paper title) (deadline is Wednesday 1 October, but titles can be changed afterwards if needed): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/3tsbtnglwy4zuqesj8odb/SignUpSheet.xlsx?rlkey=8wkw79jksbd7taaq5ggulsu3h&st=jn3u1c7q&dl=0

ECTS points: 2

For PhD students at AU (ECON), this course has been pre-approved as an internal BSS PhD course equivalent to 2 ECTS.

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Registration

Registration no later than 1 October 2025: https://events.au.dk/dgpecoursehumancapitalandwages

The course is free of charge for:

1. DGPE members from AU, KU, CBS, AAU and SDU.
2. PhD students from Economics Departments at Nordic universities outside Denmark.

For other participants, the course fee is EUR 200.

See other DGPE courses here: https://econ.au.dk/talent-development/phd-programme/phdcourses/dgpe-courses

Contact

Academic: Rune Majlund Vejlin, rvejlin@econ.au.dk
Administrative: Susanne Christensen, sch@econ.au.dk