im going to give a very short talk at the New Economists conference on resources for people starting an applied econometrics thesis. ill review the main textbooks in the area and overview relevant websites. ill start kicking around some ideas during the week. Some things i have been keeping in mind.
(i) STATA based websites e.g. STATA site, UCLA lab, Stata Journal, Stata Digest.
(ii) Short courses e.g. Essex, LSE, Oxford Michigan etc., all run Easter/Summer courses. It would be good to talk about potential demand for running short specialised, high-level econometrics courses and master classes nationally. below is a good resource for keeping track of things that are coming up internationally.
http://econometriclinks.com/
(iii) Websites and courses for other statistical packages e.g. Ox, R, CATS, RATS etc.,
(iv) Online Lectures e.g. Kenneth Train has a superb set of on-line lectures on discrete choice - fantastic resource.
(v) Presenting Results - use of Outreg and graphics functions in STATA. Use of LaTEX and Beamer.
(vi) An overview of career tracks and publication outlets relevant to econometrics.
(vii) Karl Whelan is going to give a talk on publishing papers in top journals.
I would be grateful if the economics students could let me know if they can think of other areas that would be useful to cover or indeed whether we could run another "value-added" type event on the day as well as the talks by myself and Karl.
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Liam,
I'll put your "Resources for Applied Econometricians" talk up on the ISNE website.
I'm really looking forward to the event. A nice idea might be an accompanying publication, somewhere in between the SER and the ESR.
And maybe a cash prize for best paper? Voted for by faculty members attending the conference.
Even if these add-ons aren't possible, the return of ISNE will still be very successful.
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