Econ 113

Fall 2014

Professor Alan Spearot

Instructors and Office Hours

Professor

TAs

Contact

Alan Spearot

aspearot@ucsc.edu

Pia Basurto

mbasurto@ucsc.edu

Can Kadirgan

ckadirga@ucsc.edu

Arsenios Skaperdas

askaperd@ucsc.edu

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

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

Statistics Review

Lecture Module 1

Lecture Module 2 Extra Problem

Lecture Module 3 OLS Derivation

Supplemental Notes

Lecture 10 class notes

Supplemental Notes

Supplemental Note Answers

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 (3^rd edition or later. Avoid the international edition). Here are some links to various editions of the text:

3^rd edition

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

4^th edition

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

5^th 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 Dataset Description

Wage Panel Dataset Description

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

Exams

Exam 1 ANS Distribution

Exam 2 ANS Distribution

Exam 3 ANS Distribution

Homeworks

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)

F08 ANS (2a-e, 2g-I, EC)

F09 ANS (Problem 2, Problem 3 (except b))

F11 ANS (1a-b, 1d-f, Problem 2)

F12 ANS (All)

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 (All)