Econ 113
Fall 2014
Professor Alan Spearot
Instructors and
Office Hours
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Professor |
TAs |
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Contact |
Alan Spearot |
Pia Basurto |
Can Kadirgan |
Arsenios
Skaperdas |
Office Hours |
Wednesday 3:15 – 5:15PM 459 E2 |
Thursday 2:30-4:30PM 403F E2 |
Tuesday 3:00-5:00PM 403G E2 |
Monday 3:30-4:30PM Friday 11:30AM-12:30PM 403G E2 |
Discussion Sections |
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Thursday, 8:30 - 9:40AM 10:00 - 11:10AM Crown 202 |
Tuesday 6:00-7.10PM 7:30-8:40PM Stevenson 151 |
Monday 5:00-6:10PM 6:30-7:40PM Social Science 2 167 |
Lectures
Lecture Module 2 Extra
Problem
Lecture Module 3 OLS Derivation
MSI Sections
Monday 12:30-1:40, Crown 104
Wednesday 11:00-12:10, Oakes Learning Center
Thursday 12:00-1:15, Oakes Learning Center
Reading
Assignments
First two weeks: Chapters 1 and 2
Assigned Friday Oct. 24th: Chapter 3
Assigned Friday Oct. 30th: Chapter 4
Assigned Monday Nov. 10th: Chapters 6 and 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
4th edition
5th edition
http://www.amazon.com/Introductory-Econometrics-Approach-Jeffrey-Wooldridge/dp/1111531048
Computers and Data
The $35 Small Stata will be sufficient for this class.
Wage Panel Dataset Description
Tutorial , Transferring to Word (written by Jae Hoon Choi)
Exams
Exam 1 ANS Distribution
Homeworks Homework 3 ANS
Old Exams For Final Exam, Fall 2014 Note: Missing exams (without answers) are not
available. For Midterm 1, Fall 2014 Problems in parentheses are relevant
for Exam 1, Fall 2014. This
includes questions from the second exam from previous years. S08
Exam 1 ANS (Problems
1 and 2) F08
Exam 1 ANS (Problems
2, 3 and 4) W09 Exam 1 ANS
(Problems 2 and 3) F09
Exam 1 ANS (Problems
2 and 3) F10 Exam 1 ANS (Problems
2 and 3) F11 Exam 1 ANS (Problems
2 and 3) F12 Exam 1 ANS (Problems 2 and 3) W13 Exam 1 ANS (Problem 2) F09 Exam 2 ANS
(All except 2b) F10 Exam 2 ANS (All except 1h, 1i, 2a, 2b) F11 Exam 2 ANS (All
except 1c, 1d, 2a, 2f) F12 Exam 2 ANS (All
except 1g, 1h and 2c) W13 Exam 2 ANS (All except 1d and problem 2) S14 Exam 1 ANS(All except 2e) For Midterm 2, Fall 2014 F11 Exam 3 ANS -
note – problem 1.i should refer back to 1.h For Midterm 3, Fall 2014 F07 ANS (Problem 2, 3a, 3b, EC) S08 ANS (2a-c, 2f-i, 3a, 3b ,3d) F11 ANS (1a-b, 1d-f, Problem 2) 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. S14 Exam 3 ANS