Econ 113

Winter 2013

Professor Alan Spearot

 

Syllabus

 

Instructors and Office Hours

 

Professor Alan Spearot (aspearot@ucsc.edu) 

Wednesday, 9:30 - 11:30AM, 459 E2

 

Jae Hoon Choi (jchoi24@ucsc.edu)

Tuesday, 8:00AM – 10:00AM, E2 403B

 

David Munro (dmunro@ucsc.edu)

Thursday, 9:30AM – 11:30AM, E2 403B

 

Dalia Terleckaite (dterleck@ucsc.edu)

Monday, 9:30AM – 11:30AM, E2 403G

 

Sections

 

01A       Mon     12:30PM – 01:40PM       Engineer 2 194              Dalia Terleckaite

01B       Mon     03:30PM – 04:40PM       Engineer 2 194              Dalia Terleckaite

01C       Mon     11:00AM – 12:10PM       Engineer 2 192              David Munro

01D      Wed     02:00PM – 03:10PM       Soc Sci 2 179                   Jae Hoon Choi

01E       Thu       04:00PM – 05:10PM      Steven Acad 175           David Munro

01F       Fri         03:30PM – 04:30PM      Engineer 2 192              Jae Hoon Choi

 

MSI

 

Jessica Pearson (jrpearso@ucsc.edu)

 

Tue 12-1:15 ARCenter 203

Wed 5-6:10 ARCenter 203

Thu 6-7:15 ARCenter 202

 

Lectures

 

Lecture Module 1

Lecture Module 2

Lecture Module 3

Lecture Module 4

Lecture Module 5

Lecture Module 6

Lecture Module 7

 

Book

 

The book for the class is Introductory Econometrics:  A Modern Approach by Jeffery Wooldridge.  It is mostly used as a reference, and used copies are fine (3rd edition or later.  Avoid the international edition).  Here are some links to various editions of the text:

 

3rd edition

http://www.amazon.com/Introductory-Econometrics-Approach-Applications-Solutions/dp/0324289782/ref=pd_sim_sbs_b_2

 

4th edition

http://www.amazon.com/Introductory-Econometrics-Modern-Approach-Book/dp/0324660545/ref=pd_sim_sbs_misc_1

 

Computers and Data

 

Stata Gradplan

 

The $32 Small Stata will be sufficient for this class.

 

Wage Dataset  Description

 

Tutorial , Transferring to Word (written by Jae Hoon Choi)

 

Exams

 

Exam 1     ANS

Exam 2     ANS

Exam 3     ANS

 

Homeworks

 

HW1   ANS

HW2   ANS

 

Old Exams

 

Note:  Missing exams (without answers) are not available.

 

S08 Exam 1 ANS  (not problem 3)

F08 Exam 1 ANS

W09 Exam 1 ANS

F09 Exam 1 ANS

F10 Exam 1 ANS

F11 Exam 1 ANS

F12 Exam 1  ANS                                                                                                                                                                 

 

F09 Exam 2  ANS

F10 Exam 2  ANS

F11 Exam 2  ANS

F12 Exam 2  ANS                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        

 

F09 Exam 3  ANS

F10 Exam 3  ANS

F11 Exam 3  ANS  - (note – problem 1.i should refer back to 1.h)

F12 Exam 3  ANS

 

 

Old Finals

 

F07  ANS

S08  ANS

F08  ANS

F09  ANS

F11  ANS

F12  ANS

Note that the confidence interval in 1-d is incorrect.  The correct CI is:

0.1493-2.575*0.0282<B<0.1493+2.575*0.0282

0.077<B<0.222

With 99% confidence, a 1% increase in the midterm 1 score is associated with a 0.077% and 0.22% increase in the final.

 

Also, 2f should refer back to the initial equation in 2e.

 

Old Homeworks