NEW: Economics 190: Research with
Economics Data
This course was first taught in Fall 2023. It will most likely be
taught in Fall 2024.
The goal of this new course is for students to write a research
paper based on analysis of economics data.
As background the class will go through several published papers
and several econometrics methods.
The key component of this class is the research paper which will
be a group project (2-4 students per paper depending on class
size).
Additionally there will be a final examination.
Assesment will be Attendance (5%), Assignments (30%), Midterm Exam (15%), Project interim (10%), Project Presentation (10%), Project final (30%).
Teaching will use Stata. Projects can use Stata, R or Python.
Prerequisite
The key requirement is a good understanding of
linear regression.
At a minimum one should have done Economics 102 or (better still)
Economics 140 with a grade of B or better.
Enrollment is capped at 30 students.
The course is intended
for Economics majors, and first pass is restricted to
Economics majors.
Should there still be room
after first pass I will consider Students who have taken STA 108
with a grade of B- or better or ARE 106 with a grade of B- or
better, provided they have also taken basic courses in ECN or
ARE.
Syllabus
The syllabus below is for Fall 2023, the first time the class was
taught.
In Fall 2024 the course will have some changes. It will have more
on how to structure a research paper, what parts of data analysis
to include in the paper, how to import statistical output into
tables from a paper. It will go through more examples of research
papers. There coverage of causal methods will focus on the most
commonly-used methods.
A. Colin Cameron / UC-Davis Economics / http://www.econ.ucdavis.edu/faculty/cameron