| Week |
Subject |
Related Preparation |
| 1) |
Introduction to education economics |
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| 2) |
Theories of human capital accumulation: dynamic optimisation |
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| 3) |
Theories of human capital accumulation: Signalling model |
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| 4) |
Estimating the returns to education: Mincerian wage regression |
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| 5) |
The positive externalities in education and the estimation of social returns |
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| 6) |
Ability bias and selection bias in estimating the returns to education |
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| 7) |
Natural experiments and their use in the measurement of the returns to education |
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| 8) |
The effects of education on children's outcomes and achievement |
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| 9) |
The role of parents, socioeconomic background and the education system in children's achievement |
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| 10) |
The determinants of children's achievement in Turkey. PISA results |
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| 11) |
The role of early childhood education on children's achievement |
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| 12) |
The role of peer effects in student's achievements |
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| 13) |
The mechanisms of intergenerational transmission and the effects of education |
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| 14) |
Review of the course material and preparation for the final exam |
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Program Outcomes |
Level of Contribution |
| 1) |
Build up a body of knowledge in mathematics and statistics, to use them, to understand how the mechanism of economy –both at micro and macro levels – works. |
1 |
| 2) |
Understand the common as well as distinctive characters of the markets, industries, market regulations and policies. |
2 |
| 3) |
Develop an awareness of different approaches to the economic events and why and how those approaches have been formed through the Economic History and understand the differences among those approaches by noticing at what extent they could explain the economic events. |
1 |
| 4) |
Analyze the interventions of politics to the economics and vice versa. |
4 |
| 5) |
Apply the economic analysis to everyday economic problems and evaluate the policy proposals for those problems by comparing opposite approaches. |
4 |
| 6) |
Understand current and new economic events and how the new approaches to the economics are formed and evaluating. |
3 |
| 7) |
Develop the communicative skills in order to explain the specific economic issues/events written, spoken and graphical form. |
2 |
| 8) |
Know how to formulate the economics problems and issues and define the solutions in a well-formed written form, which includes the hypothesis, literature, methodology and results / empirical evidence. |
1 |
| 9) |
Demonstrate the quantitative and qualitative capabilities and provide evidence for the hypotheses and economic arguments. |
4 |
| 10) |
Understand the information and changes related to the economy by using a foreign language and communicate with colleagues. |
3 |
BAHÇEŞEHİR UNIVERSITY BİLGİ PAKETİ / DERS KATALOĞU
