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This course will explore how economics has recently incorporated a number of insights and findings from psychology and experiments, and examine some of the implications that follow for the workings of markets and policy. Topics will include: 1) Imperfect self-control, present bias; 2) Fairness and reciprocity; 3) Intrinsic/extrinsic motivation, signaling concerns; 4) Wishful thinking, overconfidence, anticipation; 5) Reference dependence, loss aversion, prospect theory, framing; 6) Malleable preferences, hedonic forecasting; 7) Bounded rationality, inattention. Prerequisites: WWS511c or d; WWS512c; WWS593k.
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Examines the policy and practice of developing income-restricted affordable housing in the United States (new and rehabilitated, single-family and multi-family, for sale and rental) by the public, private, and nonprofit sectors
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This course is designed as a practical introduction to the use of computer mapping (Geographic Information systems) for policy analysis and decision-making. Students learn ArcGIS through examples of map applications. Students are expected to complete exercises and a final project applying GIS to a policy issue.
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An overview of the epidemiologic transition, reviewing historic and current health patterns, and examines the demographic forces that have led to rapid aging of populations worldwide. After consideration of how researchers measure health status in older populations, the course examines inequalities in health by gender, race and socioeconomic status. The final part of the course considers the potential impact of threats to future improvements in life expectancy and focuses on teh social, health and economic consequences of societal aging, primarily in high-income countries.
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This course looks at issues in political economy that are particularly salient in Latin America: establishment and preservation of stable democracy, populism, sovereign debt repayment, free trade agreements, income inequality, education, narcotics trafficking. In each area we look at what the theoretical literature in economics and politics says, look at some significant cases in Latin America, and discuss policy implications, both from the perspective of policymakers in Latin America, and of policymakers in the rest of the world. The subjects will be knit together by the underlying themes of economic development and sustainable democracy.
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This course will focus on the most recent literature on organizational, cybernetic, and biological networks and what the implications are for actually using networks to accomplish specific functions ¿ how to lead, host, orchestrate, or manage them in ways that exploit their full value.
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With the federal budget recording unprecedented deficits and rapidly escalating debt, a US fiscal crisis may be near. This course will begin with a brief review of the facts and politics of the current budget situation. The focus will then be on evaluating the most significant proposals, from across the political spectrum, to bring the budget closer to balance, including whatever emerges in the forthcoming (Dec 2010) report of the President's bipartisan Fiscal Commission.
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This course will first examine the link between development and foreign direct investment, then review policies and practices designed to promote investment in least developed countries, primarily in Africa. Focus will be on identifying the most effective strategies for governments, multilateral development banks, non-governmental organizations, and the private sector.
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This course examines the theoretical models put forth to account for international migration, reviews the empirical evidence on hypotheses derived from these theories in different world regions, develops a synthetic framework for understanding immigration in the contemporary world, and uses this framework to analyze immigration policies in the United States and other migrant-receiving nations.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
Providing primary and secondary education absorbs over 20% of state and local government expenditures in the U.S. The magnitude of spending needs and the large disparities in economic capabilities across school districts create great challenges for financing public education. Financing schools has become an arena for debate not only about education but also about redistribution. Course studies the political, legal, and economic challenges involved in education finance and the diverse ways being attempted to cope with them.
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