Applied Econometrics for Dlpt

3 Credits · Level: Graduate, Undergraduate

The increasing availability of survey data at the individual, household, and enterprise levels has fueled not only a greater role for applied econometrics in guiding development policy, but also a rising demand for practitioners with the skills to produce this type of quantitative analysis. The purpose of this course is to equip you with the necessary tools to tackle empirical development projects commonly encountered in professional settings. Students will become fluent in Stata's intuitive language and learn how to manage data, conduct regression analysis, document your work for publication, and more. By semester's end, you will have completed a working paper ready for the job market. Assignments are designed so that all analytical scripts to reproduce results from publicly-available raw data files can be packaged and submitted to prospective graduate schools or potential employers.