Before starting:

1. Zaloom C. How Paying for College Is Changing Middle-Class Life: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/30/opinion/sunday/college-tuition.html
2. Ostrom E. A Behavioral Approach to the Rational Choice Theory of Collective Action: Presidential Address, American Political Science Association, 1997: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2585925?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
3. Keefer P. and Knack S. Social Capital, Social Norms and the New Institutional Economics: http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTINVTCLI/Resources/socialcapitalsocialnorms.pdf

During the course (we recommend you starting now):

• George A. Akerlof (1970) The Market for «Lemons»: Quality Uncertainty and the Market Mechanism: https://www2.bc.edu/thomas-chemmanur/phdfincorp/MF891%20papers/Ackerlof%201970.pdf
• Diego Gambetta (1988) Fragments of an economic theory of the mafia: https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/723C7CC797D186C42A58F57ABB4F1AFA/S0003975600005610a.pdf/fragments_of_an_economic_theory_of_the_mafia.pdf

About research design and methods:

1. Research Guides (USC University) https://libguides.usc.edu/writingguide/purpose
2. Scribbr: https://www.scribbr.com/methodology/qualitative-quantitative-research/
3. Mason J. (2002) Qualitative Researching: http://www.sxf.uevora.pt/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Mason_2002.pdf
4. A Counselor’s Guide to the Dissertation Process Where to Start & How to Finish: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781119375500
5. Leslie D. Rosenstein. Research Design and Analysis: A Primer for the Non‐Statistician: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781119563600