Introductory Applied Econometrics

EEP/IAS 118
Spring 2014

• May 5: Summary of recent announcements appearing via BSpace:
  - Extra credit assignments 1 & 2 due Friday (May 9).
  -Review sessions: We will host review sessions during the regular scheduled lecture period in our regular room.
  -Make-up Quiz 8 on Tues (5/6) to cover diff-in-differences and fixed effects (we discussed differences between these two estimation methods in class last Tuesday). Reminder: I only keep your top five quiz scores; I drop the rest.
  -Practice final exams have been distributed via BSpace.
  -Office hrs this week: Steve on Mon 3-4 pm and Friday 12:30-2:30 pm in Rm 234/236 Giannini Hall. Andrew on Wed from 9-10 am and 3-4 pm in Rm 321 Barrows Hall. Dilek TBA--you need to email her if you are interested in attending office hrs; she'll schedule some if there is sufficient demand.
  
• May 1: Summary of recent announcements appearing via BSpace:
  - Daily assignment for Thurs (May 1). -Quiz 7 on Thurs (5/1) to cover starred items under daily assignment.
  -Dilek has office hrs Thurs(5/1) from 5-7 pm.
  -Exercise 2 of PS 6 can be submitted on Tuesday (5/6) at the class review session (2-3:30pm).
  -If you haven't done so review the Notes on Basic Empirical Methods for a concise review of the semester; these are on BSpace under Resources>Readings.
  
• April 24: New daily assignment #18 posted.
  
• April 22b: Quiz #6 on Thurs 4/24 will cover the short readings from Wooldridge below.
  -Subsection of Ch. 2.5 titled "Variances of the OLS Estimators" through the discussion of heteroskedasticity (~2 pages).
  -Ch. 3.5 on the Efficiency of OLS: The Gauss-Markov Theorem (What does BLUE stand for?) (~1 page).
  -Ch. 8.1 on the Consequences of Heteroskedasticity for OLS (ignore the bits about 'consistency') (~1 page).
  -Re-visit 7.5 on the Linear Probability Model through the discussion of heteroskedasticity. (~2.5 pages)
  Comment: It's a good time to begin prep for the final so you should know why we care about having an unbiased estimator of the Betas and the variances of the Betas.
  
• April 22a: Problem set 6 posted. Due May 2, in Prof. Buck's mailbox in 207 Giannini.
  
• April 18: New daily assignment #17 posted. Quiz #5 on Tues 4/22 will be based on the daily assignment and short reading. Be sure to read the PS 5 hints before submitting it on Tues--the hints include a correction to Exercise 3 which makes the related questions clearer. The Lecture Notes: Panel data and fixed effects regression and daily assignment 16 solutions should also provide guidance on PS 5.
  
• April 17: Quiz on Tuesday April 22, topic TBA.
  
• April 16: PS 5 due date has been moved to Tues 4/22 to provide more time to process fixed effects regression material presented in lecture and section. Notes to accompany the fixed effects material covered in lecture have been posted. Solutions to Daily Assignment #15 and #16 have been posted to BSpace.
  
• April 10: New daily assignment posted, along with (required) notes on regression discontinuity. Note on quizzes: We are adding a quiz on 4/22 so there will be a total of 7 quizzes; I will drop the lowest two scores. Also, if you have to miss a quiz then there will be an optional make-up quiz opportunity RRR week. As a consequence there will be no individual make-up quizzes. If you have to miss a bunch of class then you should probably come talk to us anyways.
  
• April 8: Check out the daily assignments.
  
• April 6: Lecture notes with worked solutions for prediction intervals and interaction variables has been posted. A daily assignment has been posted (not collected) recommended for completion by Tues (4/8); solutions to be posted on BSpace. Study 13.3, 13.4 & 14.1 from Wooldridge for Thurs (4/10); a separate reading has been posted on BSpace. Handouts 16-18 have been posted.
  
• April 3: Study 13.1 - 13.2 from Wooldridge.
  
• April 1(b): Study Ch. 7.1-7.4 & 7.6 (the quiz Thurs will be on just 7.1 & 7.2) and there is a daily exercise posted which is recommended for completion by Thurs (not collected). Lecture notes on confidence intervals as well as interaction terms are posted; the section on confidence intervals for predictions is short, we'll cover that at the beginning of class Thurs.
• April 1(a): The due date for PS 4 has been moved to 4/8 (next Tues). There will be a quiz Thurs (4/3) at the beginning of class covering 7.1-7.2 from Wooldridge. A schedule for the second half of the semester is posted here.
• Mar 31: Handouts and lecture notes since the midterm have been posted. Study 6.4 from Wooldridge. A daily assignment has been posted. Solutions to DA10 and DA11 have been posted on BSpace.
  
• Mar 18: Study 6.1-6.3 from Wooldridge. Problem set 4 posted, due April 3. Daily assignment 11 also posted.
  
• Mar 15: Study 4.4 - 4.6 from Wooldridge. Daily assignment 10 posted.
  
• Mar 13: Bonuz quiz (100% extra credit) on Tuesday March 18. Midterm solutions posted on bspace.
  
• Mar 12: Study Ch. 4.1-4.4 from Wooldridge if haven't already done so.
  
• Mar 9: More notes on OVB vs MCL posted in the section materials.
  
• Mar 8: Additional notes prepared by S.Buck discussing omitted variable bias versus multicollinearity posted.
  
• Mar 7: Midterm Study Guide (sent out via email 3/6): Note that the brief understanding of MLR 6 has been dropped from study guide, posted.
  
• March 6: Midterm Tuesday (March 11). QUIZ scheduled for March 18.
  
• Feb 28: Daily assignment 9 posted. Recommended for completion 3/4.
  
• Feb 27: Problem set 2 returned. Problem set 3 due on Thursday (3/6) (Pushed back from Tuesday)! Midterm review section (tentatively) scheduled for Friday March 7. Watch for an email announcement with the room. Read sections 4.1-4.4 in textbook.
• Feb 25: Quiz Thursday. Review Appendix B5 in textbook (on normal distribution), and appendix C6
• Feb 21: Problem set 3 posted. Due March 4.
• Feb 20: Daily assignment 8, and readings posted. REMINDER: midterm coming March 11.
• Feb 18: Daily assignment 7 posted
  
• Feb 18: Problem set 1 solutions on BSpace
  
• Feb 13: Daily assignment 6 posted
  
• Feb 11: Section notes on distributions posted
  
• Feb 11: Study Chapter 3.1-3.3 for Thursday Feb 20
  
• Feb 9: Problem set #2 (due Feb 20) posted
  
• Feb 8: Daily assignment 5 (with correction to distribution) posted
  
• Feb 4: PS1 data (belatedly) posted
  
• Feb 1: Handouts 1-3 posted on the class handouts page
  
• Jan 30: Fourth daily assignment posted
  
• Jan 28: Third daily assignment posted
  
• Jan 23: Second daily assignment and short survey posted
  
• Jan 21: First daily assignment posted