AAEC 5310 Advanced Market Analysis

• Term paper: Plains Cotton Cooperative Association (PCCA) Survey Report 2022 - [PDF]

AAEC 6301 Applied Macroeconomic Analysis

• Class presentation: Effects of the COVID-19 Recession on the US Labor Market: Occupation, Family, and Gender - [PDF]

BECO 5376 Austrian Economics

• Class presentation: The Market (Israel Kirzner, Market Theory and the Price System, Ch. 2; Murray Rothbard, Man, Economy, and State, Ch. 2) - [PDF]

AAEC 5301 Institutional Analysis

• Class presentation: Low-Fat Diet on BMI, Obesity, Overweight, Blood Pressure, and Diabetes—A Two-Stage Difference-in-Difference (term paper) - [PDF]
• Term paper (also submitted to POLS 5385): Low-Fat Diet on BMI, Obesity, Overweight, Blood Pressure, and Diabetes—A Two-Stage Difference-in-Difference (where PDF contains the final submission, ZIP contains the original data, and R contains the R code used to clean the original data) - [PDF] [ZIP] [R]

AAEC 6305 Economic Optimization

• Homework 1: Linear programming model (LPM) using the MATLAB Optimization toolbox - [PDF] [MATLAB]
• Homework 2: Deterministic dynamic models (DDM) using the CompEcon toolbox developed by Paul Fackler and Mario Miranda - [PDF] [MATLAB]
• Midterm (where MATLAB 1 contains the solution to the first problem and MATLAB 2 to the second) - [PDF] [MATLAB 1] [MATLAB 2]
• Class presentation: Stochastic Optimization of Medical Supply Location and Distribution in Disaster Management (Mete, 2010) - [PDF]

POLS 5385 Causal Inference and Quasi-Experimental Methods

• Homework 1: Difference-in-difference exercise on minimum wage and employment study in New Jersey and Pennsylvania (Card & Krueger, 1993) - [PDF] [R]
• Homework 2: Propensity score matching (PSM) exercise on the NSW program study (Dehejia & Wahba, 2002) - [PDF] [R]
• Homework 3: Synthetic control exercise on estimating the effect of California's tobacco program (Abadie, Diamond & Hainmeuller, 2010) - [R]
• Homework 4: Regression discontinuity exercise on the effect of voters on the decisions of politicians in office (Lee, Moretti & Butler, 2004) - [R]

AAEC 5303 Applied Econometrics II

• Lab 1: Implementation of instrumental variable (IV) procedures analyzing the effect of education (as years of schooling) on earnings (as hourly wages) (Card & Krueger, 1995) - [PDF]
• Lab 2: Estimating treatment effects assuming homogeneous and heterogeneous effects of education on fertility for women of childbearing age in Botswana - [PDF]
• Lab 3: Testing and correcting for heteroskedasticity using White's test, Breusch-Pagan test, and White's Heteroskedasticity-Consistent Covariance Matrix (HCCM) for the study of efficiency in the production of U.S. airline services (Greene, 2007) - [PDF]
• Lab 4: Estimating system of equations using seemingly unrelated regression (SUR) and simultaneous equations model (SEM) developed by Muellbauer (1980a; 1980b) in order to model a simplified version of a linear approximate almost ideal demand system (LA/AIDS) - [PDF]
• Lab 5: Estimation of panel data models using the pooled model, fixed-effect model, or random-effects model regarding the outcome of wages (Cornell & Rupert, 1988) - [PDF]

AAEC 6311 Advanced Production Economics

• Homework 1: Calculus review - [PDF]
• Homework 2: Rates of return, rate of technical substitution, and the elasticity of demand - [PDF]
• Homework 3: Profit under monopoly, Pareto optimal price and quantity, monopsony, and general equilibrium - [PDF]
• Homework 4: Social welfare, social costs, and marginal benefit - [PDF]

AAEC 5307 Applied Econometrics I

• Homework 1: Introduction to probability density functions and calculating the rate of returns for the capital asset pricing model (CAPM) - [PDF]
• Homework 2: Best linear estimation, confidence intervals, and matrix algebra - [PDF]
• Homework 3: Interpreting linear regression outputs, calculating marginal effects, and constructing t-tests and F-tests - [PDF]
• Homework 4: Alternative model testing, dummy variables as slope and intercept shifters, and interpreting log-log function models - [PDF]
• Homework 5: Interpreting log-linear models, testing for endogeneity affecting models (use of instrumental variables and the Hausman test), and using the just-identified or two-stage least squares method to estimate the parameters - [PDF]
• Homework 6: Estimation of parameters under heteroskedasticity, computing the feasible generalized least squares (FGLS) estimator, and checking for the presence of autocorrelation errors in time-series data - [PDF]
• Term paper: Economic Freedom and COVID-19. (where PDF contains the final submission, ZIP contains the original data, and R contains the R code used to clean the original data) - [PDF] [ZIP] [R]