This course focuses on applications of economic analysis to environmental problems. Topics include markets, externalities and property rights; economic value of the environment; cost-benefit analysis and discounting; sustainable economic growth; management of renewable and nonrenewable resources; economics of climate change; environmental policy and welfare analysis.

Every odd Spring

Previously: ECON 305

This course will examine labor demand from firms and labor supply of individuals, including labor force participation, unemployment, and the minimum wage. Compensating differentials, human capital influences, and gender and racial differences will be examined. Income distribution, including gender and racial differences, will be discussed, as will government programs designed to address income differentials. Pre-requisite: Econ 1100 or instructor's permission.

The basic course in statistical inference oriented toward the elements of description, estimation, and the testing of hypotheses. Topics include probability distributions, confidence intervals, tests of means, proportions, and differences, correlation and regression, analysis of variance, and chi-square tests of qualitative data. Principles are applicable to both social and physical sciences.

Every Fall and Spring in person, online every Summer

Previously: ECON 270

Special Topics course.

Every other Fall, odd years

Previously: ECON 297