ECON 30331: Econometrics
Professor Kasey Buckles
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Welcome to the website for Econometrics at
Link to Wooldridge text on amazon.com. Link is to the 6th edition but earlier editions will work.
Link to the webpage for the Cengage Unlimited subscription service.
Link to Angrist & Pischke book on amazon.com. This book is not required but you may find it to be a useful complement to the Wooldridge text.
Class Handouts & Problem Sets
Important Things to Know About Stata
Class Topics and In-Class Stata Results
Basic Topic |
Text Chapters |
In-Class Results |
Stats Review |
Appendix B, C |
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Intro |
Ch 1 |
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Simple Regression |
Ch 2 |
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Multiple Regression |
Ch 3 |
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Inference |
Ch 4 |
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Asymptotics |
Ch 5 |
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Further Issues |
Ch 6 |
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Dummy Variables |
Ch 7 |
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Heteroskedasticity |
Ch 8 |
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Specification & Data Probs |
Ch 9 |
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Time Series |
Ch 10, 11 |
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Panel Data |
Ch 13, 14 |
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IV & 2SLS |
Ch 15 |
Excel Sheet for Chapter 2 Problem #3
Pop Culture Slides: Freakonomics and Moneyball From in-class lecture.
Hakes and Sauer, "An Economic Evaluation of the Moneyball Hypothesis" From in-class lecture.
Paper for Lecture , "The Effect of Adolescent Experience on Labor Market Outcomes: The Case of Height."
height2.do Do-file for lecture. You will have to save the file to a location on your computer and then change the file locations in the text to make this work.
height2.log Log file created by height.do
Slides from 11/12 lecture on IV.
Spacing paper for 11/14 lecture , "Birth Spacing and Sibling Outcomes."
Slides from 11/14 lecture on spacing paper.
Slides from 11/19 lecture on Regression Discontinuity.
Slides from 11/21 lecture on Differences-in-Differences.
Exams and Practice Exams
Stata Info/Help
Important Things to Know about Stata
Includes instructions for accessing Stata on campus and important commands.
Stata also has some built in tutorials. To
get started, try entering the following at the command line:
tutorial intro
Stata is installed in all classrooms and clusters on campus. Here is a link to OIT services.
Stata - This is a link to Stata's webpage. Stata/IC (recommended) can be bought at a highly discounted rate through GradPlan. The cost is $125 for a year, or $295 for a perpetual license. To access GradPlan, go to this page.
Class Project
Don't forget the project is due in class on Tuesday, November 19--NO EXCEPTIONS!
Project Guidelines For the class project you will be writing a paper investigating the determinants of test scores for 5th grade students.
More Data
This link is to your textbook's website. You can download many of the datasets for homeworks and problem sets from this site.
Links
Econ Club's Tutoring Web Page. You can find a list of available tutors for Stats, Econometrics, and the Intermediate Economics courses here. You will need an nd.edu gmail account to access the page.
Stata Stata's webpage, which includes a help funcion you may find useful.
Website with Stata commands for textbook examples
Critical Values Tables This is a web page with tables for t-tests, F-tests, etc.