How Should the Graduate Economics Core be Changed? |
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Authors: | Jose Miguel Abito Katarina Borovickova Hays Golden Jacob Goldin Matthew A Masten Miguel Morin |
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Institution: | 1. Northwestern University;2. University of Chicago;3. Princeton University;4. Columbia University |
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Abstract: | The authors present suggestions by graduate students from a range of economics departments for improving the first-year core sequence in economics. The students identified a number of elements that should be added to the core: more training in building microeconomic models, a discussion of the methodological foundations of model-building, more emphasis on institutions to motivate and contextualize macroeconomic models, and greater focus on econometric practice rather than theory. The authors hope that these suggestions will encourage departments to take a fresh look at the content of the first-year core. |
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Keywords: | design of core graduate economics |
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