Inequality Dynamics in Modern Capitalism

Syllabus (updated: November 25)

Lecture 1: Why is distributional analysis important?

Lectures 2-3: First principles and statistical tools [Distributional Analysis in Stata]

Lecture 4: Income and Wealth Inequality Dynamics - Part I

Lecture 5: Income and Wealth Inequality Dynamics - Part II

Lecture 6: Global Inequality

Lecture 7: Inequality and the Environment

Lecture 8: Distributional Varieties of Capitalism - Part I

Lecture 9: Distributional Varieties of Capitalism - Part II

Additional topics:

Capital and labor income mobility

Property rights and inequality

Innovation and Inequality: The Aghion’s Perspective (a comment)

Economics of Property Rights

Note: these slides build on previous work by Tomas Cvrcek and Pawel Bukowski

Lecture 1: The Emergence of Property Rights

Lecture 2: Enforcement and credibility (jointly prepared with Elena Butti)

Lecture 3: Institutions and growth

Lecture 4: Property rights and inequality

Lecture 5: Property rights and privatisation

Lecture 6: Property rights and technology

Lecture 7: Business ownership

Lecture 8: Property Rights and the Environment

Lecture 9: Land Ownership

Lecture 10: Summary

Surveys: Theory and Practice for Social Sciences

Syllabus (updated: December 25)

Lecture 1: Introduction: Why surveys matter

Lecture 2: Simple Probability Samples [Stata]

Lecture 3: Stratified Sampling [Stata]

Lecture 4: Cluster Sampling [Stata]

Lecture 5: How to run surveys

Lecture 6: Surveys, AI, and Qualitative Interviews [Text as Data in Stata]

Lecture 7: Sampling in Economic Research

Lecture 8: Indicators

Lecture 9: Databases