"BUS 250A Inequality via Analytics Barreto Fall 2024" by Humberto Barreto
 

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Syllabus

Publication Date

Fall 2024

Course Description

This course uses microdata from IPUMS CPS to explore inequality in the distribution of income and wealth in the United States. It is grounded in numbers and data analysis, but we will also study philosophical arguments and theories about inequality. We will focus mainly on differences between rich and poor, but also examine racial and gender gaps.

Student Outcomes

Students will be able to: (1) use appropriate vocabulary and terminology, such as income versus wealth and Gini coefficient (2) download data to create and manipulate a variety of data visualizations in Excel and Python (3) discuss philosophical arguments in the field of distributive justice (4) run Monte Carlo simulations (5) work with unweighted and weighted sampling (6) think critically and grapple with ethical issues

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