Empirical Methods in Economics
Econ 253


Syllabus
Links to Java Applets
Stataquest exercise

Announcements:
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Handouts: 

Characteristics of PDFs
Constructing Confidence Intervals
Review Question
Difference in Means Test

Problem Sets: 

Problem Set 1
Problem Set 1 - Answers
Problem Set 2
Problem Set 2 - Answers
Problem Set 3
Problem Set 3 - Answers
Problem Set 4
Problem Set 4 - Answers
Problem Set 5
Problem Set 5 - Answers
Problem Set 6
Problem Set 6 - Answers
Problem Set 7
Problem Set 7 - Answers
Problem Set 8
Problem Set 8 - Answers
Problem Set 9
Problem Set 9 - Answers


Exams:

Last year's midterm I
Last year's midterm I - Answers

Last year's midterm II
Last year's midterm II - Answers

Last year's final - ignore questions 5 b,c,d,e,f
Last year's final - Answers

Midterm I - Answers
Midterm II - Answers
Final - Answers

Your problem set scores
Your final scores and grades

Data for class examples: 

health.txt - healthcare expenditures example 
houses.txt - prices of houses example 
housingstarts.txt - specification errors example 
growth.dta - loglinear specification example 
wages.txt - dummy variable example
wlfp.txt - structural break example
salaries.txt - heteroskedasticity example
sp.txt - autocorrelation example

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