Effective Computing in Economics

Description

The aim of the course is to make students acquainted with some important computational methods at the heart of modern economics research. It starts with a short introduction to LaTeX, a document preparation system and leading text processing program for academic work. It then moves on to equip students with essential data analytic skills using either the statistical software package R or Stata. Moreover, with the help of the scripting language in both packages students will learn how to complete simple programming tasks. Finally, students will be introduced in data sources available at the University of Hohenheim, like SOEP and the DALAHO for conducting their own empirical research.

The course is worth 3 ECTS and is offered as a blended learning module consisting of self-study elements and online meetings.

See ILIAS for further information.

Schedule

• Introduction R: Wednesday, 14:00-16:00; first class Wed, 16.10.24 (with an introduction to LaTeX); on campus in PC-Pool (PC-Raum 6); Instructor: Markus Moessler (markus.moessler@uni-hohenheim.de)
• Introduction Stata: Wednesday, 14:00-16:00; first class Wed, 16.10.24 (with an introduction to LaTeX); on campus in PC-Pool (PC-Raum 2); Instructor: Tim Ruberg (tim.ruberg@uni-hohenheim.de)