Empirical MicroEconomics II – ECON 861

Welcome to the webpage for the course:

here you can find the syllabus, the slides and the assignments

Announcements

· The slides of the lectures are going to be posted in advance. Please read them before coming to class.

· In order to comply with Copyright rules at Queen’s, the lectures notes will be password protected. Each student enrolled in the course will receive a password for the zip files.

ECON 861 - Syllabus

Slides and Materials used in class

LECTURE 1 (INTRODUCTION)

LECTURE 2 (A PRIMER ON STATA)

LECTURE 2 – STATA DATASET

LECTURE 2 – STATA DO-FILE

LECTURE 2 – STATA LOG FILE

LECTURE 3 & 4 (LINEAR STATIC PANEL DATA)

LECTURE 3 – STATA DATASET

LECTURE 3 – CODEBOOK

LECTURE 3 – STATA DO-FILE

LECTURE 5 & 6 (LINEAR DYNAMIC PANEL DATA)

LECTURE 7 (A PRIMER ON ASYMPTOTICS)

LECTURE 8 (QUALITATIVE RESPONSE MODELS: PROBIT & LOGIT)

LECTURE 9 (MLE OF BINARY QUALITATIVE RESPONSE MODELS)

LECTURE 10 (QR MODELS: PANEL DATA EXTENSIONS)

LECTURE 11 (QR MODELS: MULTIVARIATE & ORDERED EXTENSIONS)

LECTURE 12 (QR MODELS: UNORDERED EXTENSIONS)

LECTURE 13 (TRUNCATION, CENSORING & TOBIT)

LECTURE 14 (SAMPLE SELECTION)

LECTURE 15 (TREATMENT EFFECTS & DURATION)

Topics

LECTURE 16 (HUMAN CAPITAL & WAGES - THEORY)

LECTURE 17 (HUMAN CAPITAL & WAGES - EMPIRICS)

LECTURE 18 (DISCRIMINATION - THEORY)

LECTURE 19 (DISCRIMINATION - EMPIRICS)

LECTURE 20 (LABOR MARKET INSTITUTIONS - THEORY)

LECTURE 21 (LABOR MARKET INSTITUTIONS - EMPIRICS)

LECTURE 22 (LABOR MARKET INSTITUTIONS AND APPLIED GE)

Assignments

PROBLEM SET 1 (DUE JAN 29th)

PROBLEM SET 1 - STATA DATASET 1

PROBLEM SET 1 - STATA DATASET 2

PROBLEM SET 1 - STATA DATASET 3

PROBLEM SET 1 - STATA DATASET 4

PROBLEM SET 2 (DUE FEB 14th or 15th)

PROBLEM SET 2 - STATA DATASET 1

PROBLEM SET 2 - STATA DATASET 2

PROBLEM SET 3 (ANY DAY BETWEEN MAR 5th and MAR 12th)

PROBLEM SET 3 - STATA DATASET 1

PROBLEM SET 3 - STATA DATASET 2

PROBLEM SET 4 (DUE APR 2nd)

PROBLEM SET 4 - STATA DATASET 2

PROBLEM SET 4 - STATA DATASET 3

PROBLEM SET 5 (DUE APR 29th - By emailing Vincent)

PROBLEM SET 5 – PAPER

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