10:30 AM to 01:10 PM T
Music Theater Building 1008
Section Information for Spring 2023
This course cannot be used to fulfill PhD requirements.
This course will cover new and old research at the intersection of economics, biology, and genetics. We will address questions such as: Do nature and nurture influence economic behavior and outcomes, and how? Are there genetic variants that influence economic preferences and outcomes? What are the effects of brain neurochemistry on economic decision-making? We’ll discuss important policy issues such as the implications (or lack thereof) of these findings for inequality, intergenerational mobility, and for economists and policy makers generally; the implications of the rapidly improving predictive power of genetic data; and the implications of new technologies that allow some form of genetic selection or engineering. The course will involve engaged discussion of important academic articles. It will involve a mixture of lectures and seminar-style discussions during which we will discuss the weekly readings. The course requires a good understanding of introductory econometrics and statistics, but no previous background in biology or genetics is required.
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Credits: 3
Enrollment limited to students with a class of Advanced to Candidacy, Graduate, Junior Plus, Non-Degree or Senior Plus.
Enrollment is limited to Graduate, Non-Degree or Undergraduate level students.
Students in a Non-Degree Undergraduate degree may not enroll.
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