ECON 8080 Course Material

Syllabus

Homeworks

HW 1, due Wednesday, Jan. 22 in class, [[solutions]]

HW 2, due Monday, Feb. 10 in class, [[solutions]]

HW 3, due Monday, Mar. 3 in class, [[solutions]]

HW 4, due Wednesday, Mar. 19 in class, [[solutions]]

• Data: cps09mar.dta,   Description: cps09mar_description.pdf

HW 5, due Monday, Apr. 14 in class, [[solutions]]

• Data: jtrain_observational.dta,   Description: jtrain_observational_description.txt

HW 6, due Monday, Apr. 28 in class

• Data: job_displacement_clean2.RData

Additional Material for Midterm 1

Midterm 1 will cover all of the material through the section called ``Variance of least squares estimator’’ (including that section) in Lecture Notes 4: Least Squares Regression. The relevant material from the textbook is Chapters 1-4 (see references from course notes for more details).

Additional Practice Questions   [[solutions]]

Additional Information for Final Exam

The final exam is scheduled for 8:00–11:00am on Wednesday, April 30, in our regular classroom. The exam will be cumulative with roughly 60% material since the previous midterm and 40% material from the earlier part of the course.

I will hold additional office hours on Tuesday, April 29 from 9:30–10:30am.

Course Material

Preliminary Materials from ECON 8070

We will cover the following topics:

(Note: Some of the material will be updated/expanded as we move through the semester. Some of the topics at the end of the semester are tentative.)

0. Introduction to R

1. Linear Regression

2. Resampling Methods

3. Introduction to Nonlinear Models

4. Alternative Approaches to Causal Inference

5. Panel Data Approaches to Causal Inference

6. Generalized Method of Moments

7. If we have time, an introduction to [Nonparametric Regression]

8. If we have time, an introduction to [Empirical Likelihood Estimation]

9. If we have time, an introduction to [Quantile Regression]

Slides

• First Week: Introduction to ECON 8080