This is an archived version of the syllabus from the first iteration of the course. I've left it here for the purposes of maintaining a record.
Spring 2019; Monday + Tuesday 12:40-2:10; Classroom 125.
Professor: Paul Gowder (Office: 408. Email: paul-gowder …
read moreThis problem set is worth 17.5% of the grade in this course. It is due on Friday, February 1, at 5pm, via a dropbox in ICON that I shall set up for the purpose.
There are three problems on this set, one relatively small/easy one worth 20 points …
read moreDue Friday, February 22, at 5pm Central time.
As before, please turn in your answers in a single notebook. For the questions that require you to write down prose, hopefully by now you've realized that you can change the type of a notebook cell to "markdown" to write regular text …
read moreDue Friday, March 29, at 5pm Central time.
As before, please turn in your answers in a single notebook, emailed to Diana Dewalle.
Go onto google scholar and find Daniel M. Butler & David E. Broockman, "Do Politicians Racially Discriminate Against Constituents? A Field Experiment …
read moreDue Thursday, May 9, at 5pm Central time. This is an absolutely firm deadline, as it is the last day of the exam period.
As before, please turn in your answers in a single notebook, emailed to Diana Dewalle.
In lieu of the makeup session for the class we missed---which, it turns out, conflicts with every schedule under the sun---please complete the following short assignment. This assignment will be graded on a pass-fail basis, based on effort (moderate effort, not extreme effort---I don't want this to take more than …
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