Empirical MicroEconomics II – ECON 861

 

Welcome to the webpage for the course:

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

 

Announcements

 

·         Note: the deadline for PS4 is April 10th, while for PS5 is April 30th.

 

·         Note: the March 4th class will take place from 5.30 to 7.00pm in D213.

 

·         All the slides are online (password protected).

 

·         The new syllabus is online (13 JAN 12).

 

·         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 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 31st)

 

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)

 

PROBLEM SET 2 - STATA DATASET 1

PROBLEM SET 2 - STATA DATASET 2

 

 

 PROBLEM SET 3 (DUE MAR 15th)

 

PROBLEM SET 3 - STATA DATASET 1

PROBLEM SET 3 - STATA DATASET 2

 

 

 PROBLEM SET 4 (DUE APR 10th)

 

PROBLEM SET 4 - STATA DATASET 2

PROBLEM SET 4 - STATA DATASET 3

 

 

 PROBLEM SET 5 (DUE APR 30th)

 

PROBLEM SET 5 – PAPER

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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