David Ribar, Ph.D.
Economics 721-11: Empirical Microeconomics
Syllabus:
Schedule and Lecture Materials:
March 17 Introduction and human subjects issues
March 31 Life-cycle labor supply
April 9 Survival models
Project instructions:
- April 9 Project assigned; see instructions (due May 12)
Homework:
- March 17 Go to Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative on-line site; register and complete human subjects course for social and behavioral research; turn in copy of training certificate (due March 24)
- March 31 Estimate fixed and random effect models of associations of wages and housework with women's labor hours (due April 7)
- April 14 Estimate and interpret event-history models of unemployment (due May 5)
Data and programs:
- PSID 73-75 extract Stata data file.
- Example Stata program to estimate random- and fixed-effect models.
- 2001 SIPP data extract documentation.
- 2001 SIPP data extract Stata data file.
- 2001 SIPP data extract ASCII data file.
- Stata program to read data.
- SAS program to read ASCII data.
- Stata program to estimate continuous time hazard models of unemployment spells from SIPP data.
- Stata program to estimate discrete time logit hazard models of unemployment spells from SIPP data.
Other resources:
- Article critical summary template (in Word 97-03)