ECON 452* -- Applied Econometrics

Fall Term 2012

Course Work and Assessment

... Assignments

Two assignments will be given during the term. These assignments will require students to perform small econometric research projects that apply the various econometric methods and practices covered in the course.

The assignments will be goal-specific rather than task-specific in nature. That is, they will specify broad research objectives, a general empirical framework, and a dataset for each project, but will not specify in detail how the objectives are to be achieved or how the empirical framework is to be implemented. Students will therefore be responsible for formulating a specific research design for achieving the reseach objectives of each project, for deciding what specific empirical results are reported and how they are presented and interpreted, and for writing a complete, coherent and well-documented project report. The required format for each project report is that of a short economics journal article.

Students are not only permitted, but actively encouraged, to work in pairs in researching, writing and submitting the two assignments. NOTE: Should the final course enrolment exceed 24 students, all students will be required to work in pairs on the assignments; single-authored assignments will not be accepted.

The required econometric software to be used for all assignments is the statistical program STATA. Computer tutorials available on the course web site will give students hands-on instruction in those features of STATA that implement the econometric methods included in the course.

... Final Course Grade

Last updated on August 31, 2012.

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