ECON 9780 - Data Management and Analysis

3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: ECON 9720 (C or better)
Description
This course will help students how to use and analyze large data sets in economics and introduces students to programming language. Although the primary focus is on Stata, Matlab or R programs may be considered for more flexible programming. The course is intended to give students the necessary data management and programming skills to undertake a guided research project during their second year. It will also serve as a building block in applied economic analysis. Specifically, students will learn how to read, write and combine data; how to extract and manage data from large data sources; how to manipulate and prepare data for research purposes; how to describe, tabulate and display various data types; how to conduct basic analysis and work with descriptive and regression output; and how to address common data problems, such as missing data.