ECON 262A - Topics in Labor Economics: Education, Discrimination, and Criminal Justice

Spring 2026, Felipe Goncalves

This class covers program evaluation, instrumental variables, marginal treatment effects, and difference-in-differences design, as well as applications to papers in human capital and returns to education, neighborhood effects and peer effects, and the economics of crime. Please let me know at kennyguo@ucla.edu if you spot any errors. Thanks!

Problem Set Solutions:

• Problem Set 1: Instrumental Variables and Design
• Problem Set 2: Difference-in-differences Design
• Problem Set 2: Marginal Treatment Effects and Counterfactual Specific Treatment Effects