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.
Fall 2006
Fall
2007
Spring
2008
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:
My teaching materials are licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.
|
