MGA 60204: Policy Evaluation

Professor Kasey Buckles

Click here to go to Kasey Buckles' homepage.


Welcome to the website for Policy Evaluation at the University of Notre Dame, Spring 2019. This is your main destination for class handouts, resources, and information.

Link to Wooldridge text on amazon.com. Link is to the 6th edition but earlier editions will work.

Link to Angrist & Pischke book on amazon.com.


Class Handouts & Problem Sets

Syllabus

Stats Boot Camp

Important Things to Know About Stata

Deriving OLS, proof of unbiasedness, variance formula, log changes

Problem Set 1

Problem Set 1 data. See below for qb1.dta

Problem Set 1 Answers

Problem Set 2

Problem Set 2 data. See below for HTV.dta.

Problem Set 2 Answers

ProblemSet 3

Problem Set 3 data

Problem Set 3 Answers

Problem Set 4

Problem Set 4 Answers

Assignment 5


Class Topics and In-Class Stata Results

Basic Topic

Text Chapters

In-Class Results

Stats Review

Appendix B, C

 

Intro

Ch 1

 

Simple Regression

Ch 2

Log Files

Multiple Regression

Ch 3

Log Files

Inference

Ch 4

Log Files

Further Issues

Ch 6

Log Files

Dummy Variables

Ch 7

Log Files

Specification & Data Probs

Ch 9

Log Files

Time Series

Ch 10, 11

Log Files

Panel Data

Ch 13, 14

Log Files

IV & 2SLS

Ch 15

Log Files

Excel Sheet for Chapter 2 Problem #3

Slide show on Angrist & Pischke, Chapters 1 & 2

wagekids.do Stata do file from 2/7 lecture

homework7.do Stata do file from 2/12 lecture

Slide show on IV, from 2/19 class

Slide show on RD, from 2/28 and 3/5 class

Slide show on Dif-in-Dif, from 3/7 class

Link to Buckles and Hungerman (2018)

Exams and Practice Exams

Practice Midterm

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 15 (recommended) can be bought at a highly discounted rate through GradPlan. The cost is $125 for a year, or $225 for a perpetual license. To access GradPlan, go to this page


Class Project

Don't forget the project is due in class on Tuesday, April 30--NO EXCEPTIONS!

Project Guidelines


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.

HTV.dta

airfare.dta

pension.dta

qb1.dta

testscores.dta

affairs.dta

nbasal.dta

nbasalary.dta

beauty.dta

driving.dta

bwght2.dta

crime2c.dta

wagekids.do

homework7.do

reset9_6.do


Links

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.

Homepage for the Department of Economics at Notre Dame.