Stata Resources

 

Stata 10.0 Manuals

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Boston College SSC


Eviews help

 

Eviews Web site

Eviews Texts

Eviews Panel Chapter


Ox-Metrics PCGive

 

PCGive Help

Oxmetrics Main Page

PC-Give Panel Online help

PC-Give Panel Chapter 


 

Research and Econometrics Topics and Resources

 

         1. Panel and dynamic panel econometrics

         2. Duration-survival and binary choice models

         3. Instrumental Variables: beyond the Sargan test…

         4. Learning Stata resources and books

         5. Learning Eviews resources and books

         6. Growth and Development models math review

         7. Financial Econometrics – intro to stochastic calculus

 

 1. Panel and Dynamic Panel:  **highly recommended

                Suggestions for loading Pooled and Panel Data into Eviews 5.1

                Elitza’s tutorial on using Xtabond2  Stata’s new

                PC-Give Panel Online help      PC-Give Panel Chapter  

                Eviews Panel Chapter Papers on Panel Econometrics

                University of Essex 2005 Course on Panel Methods  EC698 part II

 

**Roodman, David (2006) How to do Xtabond2: "Difference" and "System" GMM in Stata – CGD Working Paper 103, Washington D.C. (highly recommended, not just for panel estimation)

 

**Attanasio, Orazio, Lucio Picci and Antonello Scorcu (1998) “Savings, Growth and Investment:  

        Macro analysis using a panel of countriesUniversity of Londonnice discussion of N and T tradeoffs  longer, working paper version of ReStat paper below.

 

Attanasio, Orazio, Lucio Picci and Antonello Scorcu (2000) “Savings, Growth and Investment: A macroeconomic analysis using a panel of countriesREStat, 82:2,182-211.

 

Attanasio, Orazio, Costas Meghir and Miguel Szekely (2003) “Randomized experiments and l models of scaling up: Evidence from the Progresa” ABCDE Conference, Bangalore, India.

 

**Baltagi, (2000) To Pool or not to Pool : Homogenous Versus Heterogeneous Estimators

Applied to Cigarette  DemandREStat, 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, O. Morrissey and R. Osei (2001) “Problems with Pooling in Panel Data Analysis for Developing Countries: The Case of Aid and Trade” CREDIT Paper 01/14  Univ of Nottingham, UK.

 

2. Duration or survival analysis:

 

MIT Open Course: Research methods for Doctoral Students (2004)

 

**Cleves,M,. W. Gould, and R G. Gutierrez (2004) Survival Analysis Using Stata, Revised Ed

           1-881228-84-3 Stata Pubs (intro to survival analysis and see chapt 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 see also Ralph Sezter (2005) The Political Economy of Fixed Exchange rates.”

 

3. Instrumental Variables: how good are yours…?

 

**Baum, C.F., Schaffer, M.E., and Stillman, S. 2003. Instrumental Variables and GMM:  Estimation and Testing. The Stata Journal, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 1-31.  Working paper version: Boston College Department of Economics Working Paper #545.  ideas.repec.org/p/boc/bocoec/545.html see also Baum (2006) Chapt 8

On program Evaluation: Ravallion (2005) Evaluating Anti-poverty Programs

 

6. More Stata resources books and tutorials

 

**Boston College SSC on line Stata program library: (to use any of over

1000 Stata routines from this library just type “ssc install ivreg2” for example)

Stata Gradplan contact me if you want to purchase Stata under this plan as a

Fordham University graduate student (mcleod@fordham.edu)

          **Christopher F. Baum (2006) Intro to Econometrics Using Stata, Stata Press,

                 ISBN 1597180130 Chapter 1  and Chapt 2 highly recommended.  


 

 

 

Help for PhD students


“The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.” Oscar Wilde, An Ideal husband


John Cochrane’s

Writing Tips for PhD Students

 

Writing Guidelines for my students

 

An amazing collection of PhD course lecture notes online

 

GSAS PhD Research Fellowships (application deadline late January)

 

Obstfeld and Rogoff’s Notation Guide and Chapt 1 Equations (standard notation for many open economy macro variables)