Courses
Fall 2008
Quantitative Methods
Time: Thursday (13:20-14:50 & 15:00-16:30) Friday (13:15-14:45)
Room: Lecture Room A
TA: Kengo Igei (Study Room 6A, 6th floor)
Office hours: 17:00-18:00 on Thu & Fri by Kajisa; 13:30-15:30 on Wed by Igei.
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Syllabus
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STATA
Quick reference for Stata 8 is available here.
PPP Method
Do you want to know more about PPP method? Go to this World Bank site and download Chapter 1 (overview of the ICP), which gives simple example of how to compute PPP conversion factor (particularly in Tables 5 and 6). Supplementary document by ADB is available here.
Useful references
Recent WB publications (full chapters are downloadable from link below)
(1) Handbook on Poverty + Inequality
(2) Handbook on Impact Evaluation
Advanced Econometrics (Ph.D. Course)
Time: Wednesday (10:30-12:00 & 13:15-12:45) Friday (15:00-16:30)
Room: Lecture Room E
Office hours: 17:00-18:00 on Thu & Fri
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This course is offered by Yamano and Matsumoto this year.
Handouts:
Homework:
Homework data: PNTSPRD.dta FRINGE.dta MROZ.dta FERTIL3.dta HSEINV.dta TableF5-1.dta
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Exam: Old final