Econ 4213 Page

This page provides links to all important information available on this web site for those enrolled in my Econ 4213 sections this fall.

News

We will have our first exam on Tuesday, 12 October.

Datasets

• The CPS data from Chapter 3

  • Data description.

  • STATA Dataset.

• The California schools data from Chapter 4-7

  • Data description.

  • STATA Dataset.

• The Economics Journal Subscription Data Used in Chapter 6

  • Data description.

  • STATA Dataset.

• The Massachusetts Test Score Data Used in Chapter 7

  • Data description.

  • STATA Dataset.

• The Wage Data from Jeffrey Wooldridge

  • STATA Dataset.

Office Hours

Wednesday 8:30-11:30 and by appointment.

Homework

1. Go to UCLA ATS and view the 'entering data movie' in the class notes section. This movie lasts about half an hour. Enjoy!

2. Do excercises 2.1-2.3 (hand in the one's without stars); also, do 2.5 and 2.6.

3. Do exercises 3.1, 3.3, 3.4, 3.8. Hand in 3.8.

4. Complete the following assignment using STATA. Returns to schooling

5. Complete the following assignment using STATA. Specification Testing for the returns to schooling model.

Links to other stuff

• Textbook Website This site is maintained by the publisher of your textbook, Addison-Wesley, and contains a lot of useful information. Textbook Errata, powerpoint slides, data sets, tutorials and other stuff.

• Syllabus

• Introduction to Stata This is the handout I distributed on 23 September. It covers what we did in our STATA orientation session held on the CBA Trading Floor. This link also appears below in the STATA Links section of this page.

Want your own copy of STATA?

• Go Here

Our class is setup with STATA with what they call GradPlan 2. This means that they will sell you a 1 year license for STATA and a Getting Started manual (either Intercooled or Small) for not too much money. You'll need to know our course id which I will provide to you in class. Small STATA is probably enough for all assignments in this course. For those assignments that are bigger than Small STATA will handle, you can always traipse down to the lab.

Stata Links

• The Stata Website

• Resources for learning Stata

  • Loading web based data into STATA

• Introduction to Stata This is the handout I distributed on 23 September. It covers what we did in our STATA orientation session held on the CBA Trading Floor.

• Dummy variable regression vs. two sample t-test.

• Specification Tests handout.

• This program produced the output in Table 8.1 from Stock and Watson. This is a .do file that reproduces the results in the textbook. For a copy of the output, Click here.

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