Current Assignments for Econ 623

  1. Tuesday October 23: do the readings for October 23 and 25th lectures on the reading list
  2. Do Problem set 1 Due Tuesday, October 30th (note: question 3 from this problem set requires you to use data from the Health and Retirement Study. I have conveniently extracted the data you need for this problem in a plain ASCII file, available here and the documentation for the variables this file contains is available here
  3. Do Problem Set 2 Due Tuesday, Nov 6
  4. Study the answers to Problem set 2. (Note, figure 1 was produced with the following Matlab program varplot.m
  5. Read sections 1-3 of Guido Imbens, Whitney Newey and Geert Ridder (2007) Mean-squared-error Calculations for Average Treatment Effects
  6. Read parts I and II of Wolfgang Haerdle's Applied Nonparametric Regression
  7. Read chapter 38 of the Handbook of Econometrics (volume 4) by Wolfgang Haerdle and Oliver Linton (1994) Applied nonparametric methods
  8. Do Assignment 3 Due Thursday, December 6th
  9. Check out the program I used to generate the training data for the last problem set. You should inspect the way I had individuals choose whether or not to enter the training program. Do their decisions satisfy the "unconfoundedness assumption"?
  10. Do Sample Final Exam
    We will go over solutions in a review section for the final at 9am on Monday, December 17th
  11. Do Second Sample Final Exam
    We will go over solutions in a review section for the final at 9am on Monday, December 17th
  12. Do the take home part of the Final Exam. This will be due along with the in-class part of the final exam at the start of the final exam at 1:30 PM on Tuesday, December 18th
  13. Study the solutions to Part I, the take-home part of the Final Exam.
  14. Study the solutions to Part II, the in-class part of the Final Exam.
  15. Distribution of grades for Econ 623 (100 points max for each half, or 200 points maximum for the entire course):
    Total points (200 points max) (density) (cdf)
    First half (100 points max) (density) (cdf)
    Second half (100 points max) (density) (cdf)

Send questions/comments to: jrust@gemini.econ.umd.edu