ECON 386 - Advanced Applied Econometrics

This course acts as a capstone to the econometrics sequence in the Department of Economic Sciences. During the semester the students will identify a research project that they intend to include in their thesis. The data will be acquired during the semester by using crawling techniques, which will be taught in an intensive 3 day seminar at the beginning of the semester. The remainder of the semester will be designed as an intensive project with consistent feedback to perform a causal policy evaluation. All students will engage in the enhancing the quality of the research of all other student’s in the course by working collaboratively and experientially on one another’s programming, interpretation, and writing of the results of the analysis.
Units: 4
Pre-requisite: ECON 381, ECON 382, and ECON 383
Course Type: Seminar