Professor
Elisabeth Sadoulet (esadoulet@berkeley.edu)
GSI: Becca
Taylor (becca.taylor@berkeley.edu)
Lectures: Tuesday & Thursday 9:30-11 am, 213 Wheeler
Sections: Wednesday 9-10 am (209 Dwinelle)
4-5 pm (103 Moffitt)
Office Hours
Professor Sadoulet: Wednesday 11am-12pm (213 Giannini
Hall)
GSI Becca Taylor:
Thursday 12:00-1:00pm (236 Giannini Hall)
Mondays
1:30-3:00pm (234 Giannini Hall) before problem sets
are due
ANNOUNCEMENTS
December 9:
Solutions to
previous finals questions have been posted to bCourses.
December 8:
The last
sections will be this Wednesday (12/10) at their normal times and locations.
Becca will
hold office hours this week and next at the following times:
·
Monday,
Dec 8th, 1:30-2:30pm, Giannini 234
·
Thursday,
Dec 11th, 12-1pm, Giannini 236
·
Monday,
Dec 15th, 1:30-3pm, Giannini 234
December 2:
Final
review session on Thursday, December 11 9:30-11am, in normal classroom.
Review material posted in Exams page
November 18:
For those who
may have missed this announcement in section, here is a roadmap of the upcoming
sections:
·
Nov
19 = Normal
sections
·
Nov
26 = Both
sections will be held at their normal times, but to make it easier on those
travelling for Thanksgiving, (1) anyone who can’t make the afternoon section is
invited to join the 9am section in 209 Dwinelle and (2) fully completed section
notes will be posted on the course website for those who can’t make either
section.
·
Dec
3 = No section
because Becca is out of town. Instead
Prof. Sadoulet will hold extended office hours from 10am-12pm in Giannini 234 on Dec 3, which is the day before Problem Set
#6 is due.
·
Dec
10 = Final
sections (held at the normal times and locations).
October 7:
There will be
a midterm review session on the evening of Thursday, October 16. Details on time and location to follow.
September 24:
A few small
edits were made to problem set #2.
Additionally the data was cleaned up slightly to make it more clear for use in the problem set. The new versions of the assignment and data
are available on the Problem Sets tab of the web page (if you can’t find the
variable expclothes try re-downloading the
dataset).
Reminder: Becca’s office hour session on Thursday 9/25 will be from
3pm-4pm in Giannini 236. Based on the poll taken in section, the
remainder of Becca’s Thursday office hours will be
12:00-1:00pm in Giannini 236.
September 22:
Becca’s office hour session on Thursday
9/25 will be from 3pm-4pm in Giannini 236. The time
and location of the remainder of Becca’s Thursday
office hours will be determined later this week. Becca’s
office hours on the Mondays before problem sets are due are 1:30-3:00pm in 234 Giannini.
September 17:
Sylvan’s final office hour session on
Thursday is being shifted half an hour earlier due to a conflict in his
teaching schedule. It will now be in Giannini 236 from 12-1pm.
Becca is sorting out her schedule and will confirm the time/place of her
office hours going forward.
September 9:
An additional
Stata crash course session will be held tomorrow, September 10, in Giannini 234 for those who were not able to attend last
week.
September 2:
The course’s bCourses site has now been launched and you should be able
to log in. This website will still be
the primary source of information and resources for the course, but the bCourses site will be used for giving you back your grades
and posting solutions to problem sets.
Now, there is also a mandatory survey posted on bCourses
so that we can confirm your satisfaction of the Statistics 2 prerequisite. Please fill it out as soon as possible.
A number of
additional important announcements from the beginning of class:
1.
Please
remember to hand in a hard copy of your assignments to Sylvan at the beginning
of class. You do not need to send soft
copies unless you are going to be absent.
2.
For
general email correspondence about the course such as questions about assignments
or technical problems, you should just email Sylvan,
you do not need to copy Professor Sadoulet on the email. Sylvan can determine when/if it is necessary
to discuss the issue with her.
3.
Sylvan
will post some notes on getting started with Stata on this website under
“Section Materials”. If you are
struggling with getting the program working, then you can come to an additional
GSI session on Thursday evening, September 4th, for help with Stata
basics. The sessions will be held in Giannini 236. For
those in the morning GSI Wednesday session, the Thursday session will be from
5-6pm. For those in the evening
Wednesday session, you should come to the session on Thursday from 6-7pm.
4.
There
are now 7 text books on reserve in Moffitt library reserves. Two copies are restricted to two hour
withdrawals. The other five allow you to
keep them for up to a week at a time.
August 25:
Text
We will use Introductory Econometrics: A Modern
Approach, by Jeffrey M. Wooldridge. The most recent edition is the 5thth, but earlier editions are
acceptable substitutes. There will be several copies on reserve at
Moffitt Library. Reserve call numbers will be posted here when they are
available.
Software
Problem sets will require you to use a data analysis and statistical software
program called Stata. We will begin using Stata in a tutorial during the
second week of class. If you want to purchase your own copy of
the software for your laptop or home computer, a single-user six-month license
for Small Stata (sufficient for
this course) is available through Berkeley’s GradPlan
for $35. (An annual license is $49.) Note that a license allows you to
install the software on up to three of your own computers. See
http://www.stata.com/order/schoollist.html
to purchase (Select University of California, Berkeley, then
look for the product you want). Software is delivered to campus for pick-up
after your online purchase. There are often delays in delivering copies of
Stata at the beginning of the semester, so if you are sure that you will take
this class you should order a copy ASAP to ensure you receive it on time.