Youth Unemployment

Readings

A Firm of One’s Own: Experimental Evidence on Credit Constraints and Occupational Choice

Mentioned in Lecture

Young Adults and Labor Markets in Africa

The Impacts of Industrial and Entrepreneurial Work on Income and Health: Experimental Evidence from Ethiopia

Class Materials

Lecture notes

Lab

In this lab, we will use (some of) the data from the paper A Firm of One’s Own: Experimental Evidence on Credit Constraints and Occupational Choice, which you read before class. The data that we will use for this lab is available here.

You can complete the lab in either Stata or R, though I recommend Stata for first and second year students planning to major in economics. Guidance on how to complete the lab is available for Stata or R. The Stata template is available here, and the R template is available here.