ARE 210, Fall 2015

ECON 140, Summer 2011

ARE 212, Spring 2011

PS 239, Spring 2009

PS 236, Fall 2008

PH 126, Spring 2008

UGBA 101A, Fall 2007

PS 239: Quantitative Methodology in the Social Sciences Seminar

Course information

Professor: Jas Sekhon [homepage | e-mail]

GSI: Charlie Gibbons [homepage | e-mail]

Seminar: Mondays, 4-6
Location: Dwinelle 259

Section: Wednesdays, 5-7
Location: Dwinelle 89

My office hours: By appointment

Announcements

Section is canceled on March 18.

See links added below.

My office hours are by appointment only. I am happy to meet with you, so feel free to e-mail me to schedule a time.

The location of the seminar has been changed to Dwinelle 259.

Handouts

OLS, Matching, and Preprocessing: Models Versus Design

Doing the Two-Step from Heckman to Instrumental Variables

What's the Difference? Fixed Effects and Difference-in-Difference Approaches

Applying Selection Models and Fixed Effects to Incumbency Advantage: Levitt and Wolfram (1997)

Robust Standard Errors (see also the link to Freedman's paper below)

Logs Versus Levels

Non-Linear Models: A Logit Example

Randomization Inference: An Instrumental Variables Application

R Code

Time series bootstrap [code]
Cluster-robust covariance matrix help file
Randomization inference for IV [code]
Plotting balance statistics [code | data]

LaTeX

LaTeX implementation for Windows: TeXnicCenter
LaTeX implementation for Mac: MacTex
Phil Spector's LaTex guide
Introductory LaTeX example [LaTeX | PDF]
Graphics: From R to LaTex [R | LaTeX | PDF]
Here are my style files. They should be placed into your tex -> latex folder [standard document | Beamer presentation]

Links

Andy Gelman on David Lee's incumbency advantage paper

Interesting interpretation of structural modeling (notably starting with the paragraph, "The structural approach. . .")

R Graphics Gallery

Ken Train's Discrete Choice Methods course and textbook

Freedman, David A. 2006. “On the So-Called ‘Huber Sandwich Estimator’ and ‘Robust’ Standard Errors.” The American Statistician. 60(4): 299–302. [ASA | pre-print]

Other resources

My PS 236 course page

Rocio Titiunik has taught this course in the past and her course pages should serve as an invaluable resource.

Notes on R: A Programming Environment for Data Analysis and Graphics

R quick reference card

Econometrics in R

Matrix algebra reference site

A cartoon from XKCD.com:

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