Please see a schedule for readings and homeworks below. I'll update this schedule as we move through the quarter. M&B=Maindonald and Braun. MHE=Mostly Harmless Econometrics, all readings here.
| Date | Topic | Reading | Notes |
| 30-Mar | Introduction; expected value |
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Walk through these tutorials on your own: |
| 2-Apr | Likelihood and MLE |
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Lecture notes: (1) (2) (3) |
| 7-Apr | Likelihood and MLE in regression | Lecture notes: (1) | |
| 9-Apr | Likelihood and conditional expectation |
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HW 1 due |
| 14-Apr | Conditional expectation and regression | MHE 2, 5.2 | Lecture notes: (1) |
| 16-Apr | Instrumental variables | MHE 4 | Notes HW 2 due |
| 21-Apr | Lab 1: Diff-in-diff + visualization | Bring a laptop with R installed! | |
| 23-Apr | Instrumental variables | ||
| 28-Apr | IV-continued | HW 3 due Example codes | |
| 30-Apr | HW 3 due | Quiz 1 in class Solutions | Covers material up to and including 4/21; Bring a laptop with R installed! Last year's quiz. | 5-May Class starts at 2:15 |
Regression discontinuities | MHE 6 |
| 7-May | Lab 2: IVs Reading before lab |
Bring a laptop with R installed! | 12-May | Regression discontinuities continued | MHE 6 | HW 4 due |
| 14-May | Lab 3: Regression discontinuity | Bring a laptop with R installed! | |
| 19-May | Quiz 2 in class | Quiz 2, question 1 | Covers material up to and including 5/12; Bring a laptop with R installed! Last year's quiz. |
| 21-May | Lab 4: GLM review/preview | Bring a laptop with R installed! | |
| 26-May | GLM | Long 4; M&B 6-7 | HW 5 due For HW 5, finish the assigned questions on Labs 2 and 3. |
| 28-May | GLM; binary variables | M&B 8.1; Long 3.1-3.5 | |
| 2-June | Ordered and categorical outcomes | Long 5 | HW 6 due HW 6 data Data description |
| 4-June | Binary outcomes diagnostics and interpretation | Last year's final. |