Resources
for Graduate Students:
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McLeod homepage Economics Department home page
Models
of Poverty and Human Development
USAID (2005) Developing and
Assessing Poverty Assessment Tools:
Uganda
Accuracy Report: Uses survey data
to predict
Household poverty using key data on
assets and other characteristics using
a
range of regression techniques from OLS to Probit
Health
Poverty Traps
Chakraborty. S and
M. Das (2003) “ Mortality, Human Capital and Persistent Inequality”
Duration models (or
survival analysis):
MIT
Open Course: Research methods for Doctoral Students (2004)
Revised Ed 1-881228-84-3 Stata
Publications. Nice introduction
to survival analysis,
See also chapter
2 on hazard functions.
University of Essex 2005 Course on
Survival Analysis with Stata EC698
Stephen Jenkins
Stephen
P. Jenkins and J. A. Rigg (2001) Dynamics of poverty in
Britain
(nice application of survival analysis).
Ralph
Sezter (2005)
The Political Economy of Fixed Exchange rates: a survival analysis”
Another nice application of survival
analysis.
Instrumental Variables
Program Evaluation:
Ravallion (2005) Evaluating
Anti-poverty Programs
Panel and Dynamic Panel
Econometrics
Roodman, David (2006) How to Do
xtabond2: An Introduction to "Difference" and "System" GMM
in Stata –
CGD Working Paper 103,
PC-Give
Panel Online help PC-Give Manuel Panel Chapter Eviews
Panel Estimation Chapter
Attanasio, Orazio, Lucio Picci and
Antonello Scorcu (1998) “Savings, Growth and Investment: A
Macroeconomic analysis
using a panel of countries”
of N and T tradeoffs and methods –
working paper version of ReStat 2000 paper below.
Attanasio, Orazio, Lucio Picci and
Antonello Scorcu (2000) “Savings, Growth and Investment: A
macroeconomic analysis using
a panel of countries”Review of
Economics and Statistics, 82:2,182-211.
Attanasio, Orazio, Costas Meghir and
Miguel Szekely (2003) “Using randomized experiments and structural
models of scaling up: Evidence
from the Progresa evaluation” ABCDE
Conference,
Baltagi, (2000) To Pool or not to Pool : Homogenous Versus
Heterogeneous Estimators Applied to Cigarette
Demand”
Review of Economics and Statistics, 82:1,117-126.
Judson, Ruth and Ann Owen (1996) “Estimating Dynamic Panel Data Models: A
Practical Guide
for
Macroeconomists” Federal Reserve Board of Governors, January 1996
Lloyd, Tim, Oliver Morrissey and
Robert Osei (2001) “Problems with Pooling in
Panel Data Analysis for
Developing Countries: The Case of
Aid and Trade Relationships” CREDIT Research Paper No. 01/14
Loading
Pooled and Panel Data into Eviews 5.1
Some
papers on Panel Econometrics
Paper/thesis writing
style guidelines:
John
Cochrane’s Writing Tips for PhD Students
Fordham
University GSAS Guidelines
Obstfeld and Rogoff’s International
Economics
Notation
Guide and Chapter 1 Equations
Paper and
dissertation writing guidelines for my students
Examples
of Accepted Dissertation proposals:
Samir Gadio
(2005) “Sectoral Impacts of Financial Liberalization in LDCs”
Juan Molina Remittances (2004) Investment, And Inequality
In Developing Countries
Mustapha A. Akinkunmi (2003) Openness and Money Demand in LDCs: A Dynamic Panel Approach
Beryl Chang (2005) “Who benefits
from greater access to consumer credit and how?”
Completed Dissertation Examples
Marcelo LaFluer (2004) Exchange Rate Policy
and Regional Integration: Does it Pay to be Different?
Photocopy
of John Nash’s Thesis
Right
click on these links and choose “save target as”
Excel
Template for Regression Tables
Word
Template for Regression Tables
Stata Transfer6 (unzip to any directory on hard drive and run
setup)
PhD
Students: where at they now?
Jovis Bellot (USAID
consultant to the Central Bank of
Beryl Chang
Luseni Kamara
Marcelo La Fluer,
Mary Laecy (Asst.
Professor of Economics at
Brenda Killen-Hardy
Apolinar Mesa (now teaching Pontificia Universidad Catolica Madre y Maestra and
Universidad Autonoma de Santo
Domingo in their Master’s Program)
Samir Gadio
Juan Molina (CRS San Antonio Advocate for
Immigration Policy)