Massachusetts Institute of Technology
14.03 - Intermediate Applied Microeconomics, Fall 2003
READINGS
The required textbook is:
Hal. R. Varian, Intermediate Microeconomics: A Modern Approach,
6th Edition, New York, W.W. Norton, 2002. ISBN 0-393-97830-3. The textbook
can be purchased from the MIT Coop Bookstore. The following supplementary required
readings are available from the original journals at MIT's
Dewey Library or
in Acrobat (pdf) format
through the
online links on this page, which are accessible only with an
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14.03 - Intermediate Applied Microeconomics, Fall 2003
READINGS
- David Card and Alan B. Krueger, "Minimum Wages and Employment: A Case Study of the Fast Food Industry in New Jersey and Pennsylvania," American Economic Review 1994; 84:772-793.
- Avner Ahituv, V. Joseph Hotz, and Tomas Philipson, "The Responsiveness of the Demand for Condoms to the Local Prevalence of AIDS," Journal of Human Resources 1996; 31:869-897.
- Michael Grossman and Frank J. Chaloupka, "The Demand for Cocaine by Young Adults: A Rational Addiction Approach," Journal of Health Economics 1998; 17:427-474.
- Colin Camerer, Linda Babcock, George Lowenstein, and Richard Thaler, "Labor Supply of New York City Cabdrivers: One Day at a Time," Quarterly Journal of Economics 1997; 112:407-441.
- Austan Goolsbee, "What Happens When You Tax the Rich? Evidence From Executive Compensation," Journal of Political Economy 2000; 108:352-378.
- Jeffrey E. Harris, "The 1983 Increase in the Federal Excise Tax on Cigarettes," in Larry Summers, ed., Tax Policy and the Economy 1987; 1:87-111.
- Maura P. Doyle and Christopher M. Snyder, "Information Sharing and Competition in the Motor Vehicle Industry," Journal of Political Economy 1999; 107:1326-1364.
- Ian Ayres and Steven D. Levitt "Measuring Positive Externalities from Unobservable Victim Precaution: An Empirical Analysis of Lojack," Quarterly Journal of Economics 1998; 113:43-77.
- Curtis Carlson, Dallas Burtraw, Maureen Cropper, and Karen Palmer, "Sulfur Dioxide Control by Electric Utilities: What Are the Gains From Trade?," Journal of Political Economy 2000; 108:1292-1326.
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