Social Science Degrees in the USA

...1 hour / session To provide a solid foundation in probability and statistics for economists and other social scientists. We will emphasize topics needed...

...No enrollment or registration. Freely browse and use OCW materials at your own pace. There's no signup, and no start or end dates. Knowledge is your reward...

...Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session All students will be expected to have successfully completed: Students may find it useful to take at least... Learn about: Communication Training...

...This course is divided into two sections, Part I and Part II. Part I, found here, provides an introduction to statistical theory. A brief review of probability...

...There is a free online version of Bruce Hanse's Econometrics text. Other nice texts include Wooldridge's grad text, Econometric Analysis of Cross Section and Panel...

...2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session Recitations: 1 session / week, 1.5 hours / session This course presents micro-econometric models, including large...

...models of imperfect competition, auction models, duration models, and nonlinear panel data. Results are illustrated with economic applications...

...differences-in-differences, regression discontinuity designs, standard errors, and a module consisting of 8–9 lectures on the analysis of high-dimensional data sets a.k...

...1 hour / session Explores the role of government in the economy, applying tools of basic microeconomics to answer important policy questions such as government... Learn about: Health Insurance, Income Tax...

...Extensions will not be granted. At least one of the problem sets will involve a statistical exercise to be conducted with STATA. This problem set... Learn about: Professor Training, Office IT, Ms Office...

...and benefits of environmental regulations. These tools will be used to evaluate a series of current policy questions, including: Should air and water pollution... Learn about: Climate Change, Ms Office, Environmental Regulation...

...price regulation, deregulation, energy efficiency and policies for controlling emission. Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session Recitations... Learn about: Energy Markets...

...be extra readings and a separate required question on the midterm and the final exams. There will also be approximately five problem sets for all students... Learn about: Energy Markets...

...MIT OpenCourseWare is a free & open publication of material from thousands of MIT courses, covering the entire MIT curriculum. No enrollment or registration... Learn about: Financial Training, International Trade...

...June 1999. Paper presented at Frontiers of the Mind in the Twenty-First Century, U.S. Library of Congress, Washington, DC, June 1999. For two more recent and more polemical... Learn about: Interest Rates...

...with externalities is unsatisfactory, and what special set of issues emerge in modeling technological change. The lecture will also briefly discuss...

...facts that motivate extensions to these models. Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session Recitations: 1 session / week, 1.5 hours / session Problem...

...Topics include the explanation of high chronic unemployment in some nations, the source of modern liquidity crises, the origin and end of speculative bubbles...

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...There are no official textbooks for this course. Please refer to the readings list. The grade is based on the successful completion of 7 graded problem... Learn about: Professor Training...