Curricula and Syllabi in Experimental Economics

Department of Economics, University of Oslo

This is the website for a course on behavioural economics as taught as an advanced course at masters level by the University of Oslo since 2006. It includes details of the syllabus / reading list, assessment methods, lecture handouts and economic problems to be discussed in the seminars. Specific topics covered by the course include behavioral decision theory, time inconsistency and self-control, social preferences and fairness.

Published or updated: 2006

Behavioral economics spring 2006 syllabus

P. J. Healy, Carnegie Mellon

This is a syllabus for a behavioural economics course as taught by Professor P.J. Healy of Carnegie Mellon in 2006. It includes information on the course structure, assessments and topics. It also features a short article on Defining Behavioral Economics: History and A Parable, that explores the origins of the subject.

Published or updated: 2006

Putting Social Sciences to the Test: Field Experiments in Economics

David Autor and Esther Duflo, MIT

Archived from a course delivered in Spring 2006, this site has lecture notes, a syllabus and assignments freely available as part of MIT OpenCourseWare.

Published or updated: 2006

Licence: Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike (CC-BY-NC-SA)