Announcements

The deadline for Project 1 has been pushed to Tue Oct 29 11:59 PM due to power outages and the postponement of OH.

Please fill out the Midsemester Survey so that we can get some feedback on the course and adjust the second half as needed.
Project 1 will be released today and will serve as the alpha test of a new autograder; please bear with us if there are any issues moving through this project.

Homework 3 will be posted later than usual; we will announce on Piazza when it is ready.
Solutions for Homework 1 have been posted (link below).
The course policies have been ammended with details on the following:
- absence policy
- late submission policy
- regrade requests
Connector assistant office hours have been moved. We will finalize the room later this week and update the policies page to reflect this.

Homework 1 released (link below).
10:00 PM: Please reclick the HW 1 link below as we have revised some of the code.

Calendar

Instructor: Eric Van Dusen (ericvd@berkeley.edu)

Lecture: Tue 2pm-4pm in 105 Cory

Date	Lecture	Materials	Reading	Assignment
Tue, Sep 3	Lecture 1: Introduction, Math Review	Slides Lab		Homework 1 (due Sep 9)
Tue, Sep 10	Lecture 2: Supply Curve and Firm Behavior	Slides Horizontal Sum Supply Intro to Production Lab		Homework 2 (due Sep 16)
Tue, Sep 17	Lecture 3: Demand Curve and Market Equilibrium	Slides Demand Survey Demand Survey Notebook Lab		Homework 3 (due Sep 23)
Tue, Sep 24	Lecture 4: Utility Maximization	Slides Lab		Homework 4 (due Sep 30)
Tue, Oct 1	Lecture 5: Welfare and Elasticities	Slides Lab		Homework 5 (due Oct 7)
Tue, Oct 8	Lecture 6: Trade and Taxes	Slides SDT Widget Lab		Homework 6 (due Oct 14)
Tue, Oct 15	Lecture 7: Production and Cobb-Douglas	Slides Lab		Project 1 (due Oct 28)
Tue, Oct 22	Lecture 8: Economic Development - Africa	Slides Lab		continue Project 1
Tue, Oct 29	Lecture 9: Finance and Time Series Data	Slides Lab		Homework 7 (due Nov 4)
Tue, Nov 5	Lecture 10: Measures of Inequality, Tax Rates	Slides Lab		Homework 8 (due Nov 12)
Tue, Nov 12	Lecture 11: Environmental Economics	Slides Lab		Project 2 (due Nov 25)
Tue, Nov 19	Lecture 12: Econometrics and Data Science	Slides Dummy Variables Lab		continue Project 2
Tue, Nov 26	NO CLASS: Thanksgiving Break			Project 3 (due Dec 16)
Tue, Dec 3	Lecture 13: Guest Lecture	Slides Inflation and Unemployment Lab		continue Project 3

Note: Topics and dates are subject to change.