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ECON 1203 - Economics of Social Issues

​This course applies fundamental economic principles to the understanding of domestic and global issues such as poverty, treatment of minorities, immigration, agriculture, health, crime, labor markets, immigration, and environmental damage.

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First day of class activity

Book List: Choose one
  • Eve Ewing – Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side
  • David Grann – Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
  • Mehrsa Baradaran – The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap
  • Eric Eyre – Death in Mud Lick: A Coal Country Fight against the Drug Companies That Delivered the Opioid Epidemic
  • Richard Rothstein – The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
  • Anne Case and Angus Deaton – Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
  • Matthew Desmond – Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
  • Randy Krehbiel – Tulsa, 1921: Reporting a Massacre
  • Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee – Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty

Income Equality and Economic Opportunity

Freakonomics:
  • Is the American Dream Really Dead?
AEA Research: 
  • Has tribal gaming been a boon for American Indians?
  • How valuable is access to the social safety net in early childhood?
  • As incomes become more unequal, are standards of living diverging too?

Data Day:
  • https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PAYEMS
  • ​​IRS 2018 Data

Watching/Listening:
  • ​Planet Money: Patent Racism
  • The Color of Law: Segregated by Design
  • HOLC Redlining Maps

Discrimination

Gender Bias at RateMyProfessor
Econofact: The Effects of ‘Ban the Box’ on the Employment of Black Men
Freakonomics:
  • ​What Are Gender Barriers Made Of?
AEA Research:
  • ​Gender Quotas in Politics
  • Can temporary affirmative action policies have lasting effects?
  • Can strong peer networks close the gender gap in entrepreneurship?

Economics of Crime and Violence

Crime Data Tool
Research on Gun Violence
  • Topic Selection
Cure Violence:
  • Cure Violence Mini Documentary
Opioid Abuse and Crime:
  • Paper by Jennifer Doleac and Anita Mukherjee 
    • The Moral Hazard of Lifesaving Innovations: Naloxone Access, Opioid Abuse, and Crime
    • Summary and Response to Criticism​
Journal Record: 
  • Childhood Trauma Connected to Adult Challenges
Freakonomics:
  • The Perfect Crime
  • What’s More Dangerous: Marijuana or Alcohol?
RAND Gun Policy in America 
  • Overview
  • What Science Tells Us About the Effects of Gun Policies
  • How Gun Policies Affect Outcomes: What the Evidence Shows Us

Education

Freakonomics:
  • ​Is America’s Education Problem Really Just a Teacher Problem? 
Bureau of Labor Statistics:
  • Occupational Employment Statistics - www.bls.gov/oes/tables.htm
  • Excel Workbook with ED data only (.xlsx)
    • Change "area_type" to 2 to see State-level statistics
    • Change "area_title" to specific state names (e.g. Oklahoma or Texas) to make comparisons
New York Times:
  • ​UCO Mobility Report Card
Journal Record
  • journalrecord.com/2018/04/02/teachers-students-crowd-capitol/
  • journalrecord.com/2018/04/02/state-braces-for-day-two-of-teacher-walkout/​

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Environmental Economics

Freakonomics:
  • ​Professor Hendryx vs. Big Coal
Climate Change Economics:
  • Woodward County, Oklahoma: Why do so many here doubt climate change?
  • Bloomberg: ​What's Really Warming the World?
  • Yale Program on Climate Change
  • Heatwave Risk Perceptions
  • Katherine Hayhoe TED Talk
  • U.S. National Climate Assessment















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