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Practical Econometrics: Data collection, Analysis, and Application

Christiana E. Hilmer, San Diego State University
Michael J. Hilmer, San Diego State University

Feature Summary

Chapter Objectives: This feature introduces the objectives of each chapter.
A Student's Perspective: Rather than simply listing a number of topics that students might be interested in addressing, each chapter is motivated with a topic that a former student actually chose to address in his or her empirical research project.
Big Picture Overview: This feature provides a roadmap to the tools introduced in each chapter, providing a visual depiction of the goals of the chapter and demonstrating how the material covered in the chapter expands on the material covered in pervious chapters.
Additions to Our Empirical Research Toolkit: Each chapter concludes with a review of the econometric tools introduced in the chapter.
Our New Empirical tools in Practice: Using What We Have Learned in this Chapter: This feature ties back to the topic introduced in "A Student's Perspective" to demonstrate the practical value of the tools introduced in the chapter by describing how actual students utilized the tools in their empirical research project.
Looking Ahead to the Next Chapter: This feature provides an introduction to the material presented in the next chapter, with particular focus on how the new material builds on the reader's existing knowledge base.
Empirical Research Tool Boxes: These boxes provide a quick reference to the econometric tools introduced. They include the goal, implementation, and correct interpretation of the tool as well as a discussion of why the tool works.
Excel Example Boxes: These boxes demonstrate the correct implementation of given econometric tools in Excel by implementing the commands for a specific empirical example and by discussing the correct interpretation of the results.
Excel Regression Output Boxes: These boxes contain the regression output for the example being discussed in the chapter.
Stata Command Appendix: includes the commands necessary to perform all of the calculations introduced in the text.

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