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Weijun, Hu (Larry)
Contact Information Office: Social Science/Humanities Building 117
Fields Applied Micro (labor and development)
Education Graduate Program in Economics, Department of Economics, UC Davis, since 2004 M.A. Guanghua School of Management, Peking University, China. 2003 B.A. Department of World Economy, Fudan University, China, 2000
ECN 102 : Analysis of Economic Data (Fall 2004) STA 120 : Probability For Engineer (Winter 2005) ECN 101: Intermed Macroeconomics (Summer 2005) ECN 115: Development (Fall 2005) ECN 200D: Graduate Macro Theory I (Winter 2006) ECN 200C: Graduate Micro Theory III: IO and Game Theory (Spring 2006) ECN 111A: American Economic History: From colonial time to 1865 (Summer 2006) ECN 106: Decision Theory (Fall 2006) ECN 101: Intermed Macroeconomics (Winter 2007) ECN 151A: Labor Economics (Spring 2007)
Trying to understand why some people succeed and others fail, and how their success or failure is related to the environment, institutions and the people themselves—those seem like important issues to me. …... Labor economics was at the forefront in combining economic theory, high-tech econometrics and exciting new data sources. We felt we were on a very serious mission ….... Their (labor economists) focus will be on the data, first and foremost, and on the institutional features that matter. Labor economists also use models that are close to the data and aren't wildly inconsistent with long-run trends or well-known facts. Economics as a whole is really a combination of two kinds of people: those who are very practically oriented and those who are more like mathematical philosophers. The mathematical philosophers get most of the attention. They deal with the big unanswerable questions. Labor economists try to be more scientific: looking for very specific predictions and trying to test these as carefully as possible. The mathematical philosophers get very frustrated by labor economists. They come up with a broad general theory, and we tell them it doesn't fit the evidence. ————- David Card
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