Course Materials

Course Text Books

As introduced in the course syllabus, there are two text books required in this course. Other readings will be linked below.

W: Wooldridge, Jeffrey M. 2016. Introductory Econometrics: A Modern Approach. 6th Edition. ISBN: 978-1-305-27010-7.
H: Hamilton, Lawrence C. 2013. Statistics with Stata: Updated for Version 12. 8th Edition. ISBN: 978-0-8400-6463-9.

Other course readings will be linked below or (when necessary) made available on Canvas.

Reading Schedule

It is expected that students will be prepared when they come to class. Being prepared includes doing the required reading listed below.

Week 1, January 19th

Lecture Slides

Course survey
Gallo, Amy. 2015. “A Refresher on Regression Analysis.”
Yang, Kaifeng. 2007. “Quantitative Methods for Policy Analysis,” on Canvas

Week 2, January 26th

Lecture Slides

Lab Do File
Lab Data

W: Chapter 2
H: Chapter 1 and pgs. 13–32.

Week 3, February 2nd

Problem set #1 due

Lecture Slides

Lab Do File
Lab Data #1; Lab Data #2; Lab Data #3

W: Chapter 3
H: pgs. 123–129

Week 4, February 9th

Lecture Slides

Lab Do File

W: 4 and 6-3
H: Chapter 3

Week 5, February 16th

Problem set #2 due

Lecture Slides

Lab Do File
Lab Data #1; Lab Data #2

W: 7-1 to 7-4
H: pgs 163-189
Brambor et al. (2005), on Canvas

Week 6, February 23rd

Problem set #3 due

Lecture Slides

Lab Do File
Lab Data

W: 6-1, 6-2, and 6-4
H: pgs 190-214
Bailey, Chapter 7, on Canvas

Week 7, March 2nd

Midterm Exam

Week 8, March 16th

Lecture Slides

Lab Do File
Lab Data

W: Chapter 8

Week 9, March 23rd

Problem set #4 due; Data Project Check-In #1 due

Lecture Slides

Lab Do File
Lab Data #1; Lab Data #2; Lab Data #3

W: 7-5, 17-1
Bailey, “Dummy Dependent Variables,” on Canvas

Week 10, March 30th

Problem set #5 due

Lecture Slides

Lab Do File

H: pgs 251–268

Week 11, April 6th

Data Project Check-In #2 due

Lecture Slides

Lab Do File

H: pgs 107–119
(Optional, Survey Data Application, Feel free to poke around) NLS “Sample Weights and Design Effects”

Week 12, April 13th

Lecture Slides Lecture Slides .pdf download

Lab Do File

W: 6-4 (revisited)
Shmueli on Canvas

Week 13, April 20th

Data Project Due

Lecture Slides

Lab Do File

W: 9-4, 9-5

Week 14, April 27th

Lecture Slides

Lab Do File; Lab Data File

FINAL EXAM, May 6th

Link to Part 2 Dataset