ECON 4848

 

Spring 2011:


Syllabus


Important announcements:


  1. 1. During the week (1/24 - 1/28) office hours will be held Wednesday 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM. There will be no office hours on Friday.

  2. 2.There will be NO CLASS MEETING meeting on January 28.


Homework Sets:


  1. 1.Homework 1 (Here is a Stata do file that answers questions in homework 1 - hw1qa.do)

  2. 2.Homework 2 (Here is a Stata do file that answers questions in homework 2 - hw2q1.do)

  3. 3.Homework 3 : As discussed in class, this homework will be graded. Your fist midterm grade will be the average of your grade on this homework and the grade you obtained on your first exam.  The due date is 2/23.


Final examinations from previous semesters: Fall 2009, Spring 2010


Important information: 1. There will be no make-up examinations; 2. There is a 40 percent grade reduction for an Empirical project that is turned in late.


All data sets used in your textbook can be obtained from the book website, but I will also make them available on this website. If you want to get them from the book website, first login (or create an account) to Cengage Learning at http://login.cengage.com/sso/ and go to the book website.


Data Sets: wage1.dta, census2c.dta, census2.dta, ceosal2.dta, charity.dta, 401K.dta, wage2.dta, anscombe73.dta, hprice1.dta, discrim.dta, jtrain.dta, vote1.dta, 401ksubs.dta, discrim.dta, hprice3.dta, bwght2.dta, crime1.raw, attend.dta, meap00_01.dta, gpa3.dta, sleep75.dta


A guide for the empirical project: guide


If you would like to read a very good project written by a former student in this class see sample project with its associated tables and figures.


As you start the process of thinking of an economic issue/question that interests you and can be studied using data and the regression models we are discussing in class, it may be of interest to look at a number of sources of economic data.  Below I list several URLs that contain a variety of data.


1. http://www.aeaweb.org/RFE/showCat.php?cat_id=2 (American Economic Association)

  1. 2.http://www.bls.gov/ (Bureau of Labor Statistics)

  2. 3.http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/ (Federal Reserve bank of Saint Louis)

  3. 4.http://www.federalreserve.gov/econresdata/releases/statisticsdata.htm (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve)

  4. 5.http://www.nber.org (National Bureau of Economic Research)

  5. 6.http://www.census.gov/econ/index.html

  6. 7.http://www.census.gov/cps/

  7. 8.http://www.census.gov/sipp/ (US Census Bureau)

  8. 9.http://psidonline.isr.umich.edu/ (University of Michigan)

  9. 10. http://bea.doc.gov/ (bureau of Economic Analysis)

  10. 11. http://www.imfstatistics.org/imf/ (International Monetary Fund)

  11. 12. http://econ.worldbank.org (The World Bank)

  12. 13. http://www.ifpri.org/datasets (International Food Policy Research Institute)


Links related to Stata.


Besides all the work we do in class with Stata and the Stata Handouts available on this webpage you will benefit from exploring the following websites:


  1. 1.http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/sk/modules_sk.htm

  2. 2.http://data.princeton.edu/stata/


Stata codes: example1.do, example2.do, example3.do, example4.do


Handouts and notes: econometrics, sh1, sh2, sh3