EC-103 Using Big Data to Solve Economic and Social Problems
This course applies 'big data' to understand and address some important economic and social problems, including equality of opportunity, education, racial disparities, innovation and entrepreneurship, health care, climate change, criminal justice, and tax policy. The course presents frontier research in a non-technical manner, making it suitable for students exploring economics as well as those who have some prior exposure. The course covers many basic concepts of microeconomics, and some statistical ideas including methods of causal inference.