Economics 190: Research with Economics Data Fall 2024

The course is new - it was first taught in Fall 2023. It will eventually be given a permanent course number.

The course goals are to provide students with the skills to do research applying basic regression methods to data.
Most of the course will provide necessary skills. The course will also include a modest project.
The course will cover
(1) Basic regression methods.
(2) Downloading and cleaning data from a major public data source (IPUMs). 
(3) Creating publishable tables from statistical analysis and regression analysis
(4) Replication of a published journal paper.
(5) A project that is written in the format of a published research paper.

Assessment will be Assignments (30%), Midterm Exams (30%), Project Presentation (10%), Project (30%).

Teaching and assignments and project will use Stata.

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 25 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

This course was first taught in Fall 2023.
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.
This course will eventually become a permanent course with a regular course number.


A. Colin Cameron / UC-Davis Economics / http://www.econ.ucdavis.edu/faculty/cameron