ECON 244

U.S. Labor Markets and Public Programs since 1940

Economics · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)

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Designed for PhD students. Introduction to current research at intersection of labor economics, public economics, and U.S. economic history, focusing on period after 1940. Topics include economic and wage inequality; intergenerational mobility; increasing (and stalling) educational attainment; changes in health and health care; Great Migration; gender gap in pay and rise of married women’s market work; baby boom and bust; racial inequality from slavery to Civil Rights era; and war on poverty.

S/U or letter grading.

When it runs

Spring 2026
Spring 2027

Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.

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