ECON 4670 Writing with Data

ECON 4670 Writing with Data
Writing with Data
To learn how large databases are employed to guide economic policy-making. Secondary objectives include developing an understanding of how economic theory is integrated with econometric techniques, basic statistical programming, and learning about a Latin American country. Students that successfully complete this course will have learned how to read analytical research papers that are based on large numerical database by writing such an original research paper themselves. They will also develop an elementary working knowledge of UNIX and SAS. ECON 6670 is the master's level equivalent.
Pre-requistites: ECON 3010; ECON 3230 is helpful, as is a working knowledge of Spanish or Portuguese.
credit hours: 3