| Lecturer: | Prof. Dr. Thorsten Schank (Lecture), NN (Tutorial) |
| ID Number: | 3281 (Lecture), 3286 (Tutorial) |
| Contact Time: | 2 SWS lecture and 2 SWS tutorial |
| Credit points: | 6 ECTS for Master students |
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| Language: | English |
| Assessment: | Presentation of a journal article and poster presentation of the student’s own empirical analysis |
The course covers the following topics:
(1) How to carry out an empirical project
(2) Multiple Regression
(3) Matching
(4) Instrumental Variables
(5) Panel Data Methods.
While reviewing the empirical methods, applications in the fields of labor economics are discussed. These include returns to education, wage discrimination of women, returns to job mobility and evaluation of labor market programs. Students will then use Stata to apply the empirical methods to real data.
Class material and handouts can be downloaded from the e-learning platform Moodle