Courses Master Display 2024-2025

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Course title Empirical Methods in Economics
Course code EBC4233
ECTS credits 5,0
Assessment Whole/Half Grades
Period
Period Start End Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri
1 2-9-2024 20-10-2024 X X
Level Advanced
Coordinator Bart Golsteyn
For more information: b.golsteyn@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Language of instruction English
Goals
* A critical attitude towards the use of data and the empirical methods to analyse real world events
* How empirical observations can be interpreted and evaluated from an economic point of view
* Experience in working with Stata
Description
People who retire earlier, die earlier. Would you conclude from this evidence that it is better not to retire early? This course offers you (1) tools with which you can take a critical look at such claims, (2) tools with which you can investigate data yourself. In case of this example, causality might run in the opposite direction: people who are healthier work longer than those who are less healthy. So deceasing earlier might not be caused by earlier retirement but be due to worse health of early retirees. To estimate whether early retirement really increases health risks we need a better research strategy.
This course offers such methods and tools along with assignments to see how it works in practice. It considers both cross-section, time series and panel methods. The course develops an understanding of the main tools with which empirical claims can be established or refuted. The philosophy is to explain the empirical strategies in an intuitive way. We focus on analysing economic phenomena, using applied papers as examples.
Literature
Chapters from:
* Stock, J. & Watson, M. (2019), Introduction to Econometrics, Fourth Edition, Pearson.
* Söderbom, M. and F. Teal (2015), Empirical Development Economics, Routledge, London/New York.
A reader with articles and background material.
Prerequisites
This course is in transition for the master Economics.
See the Master Education and Examination Regulations for more information.

The following rule applies to master Economics students who started the programme prior to academic year 2023/24.
TRANSITIONAL REGULATION (EBC4233):
Students can continue to register for EBC4233


PREREQUISITES:
* Basic econometrics, some experience with statistical software such as Stata.
* An advanced level of English.
Keywords
Teaching methods (indicative; course manual is definitive) PBL / Lecture / Assignment
Assessment methods (indicative; course manual is definitive) Participation / Written Exam / Assignment
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