Hansen 2000, 20201 university of wisconsin department of economics this revision. This page links some of the data sets and do files used to produce the estimates reported in my book with steve pischke, mostly harmless econometrics. Feb 21, 2011 the application of econometrics in empirical research is as much art as science. The first two chapters explain our experimentalist perspective on applied econometrics. All the estimation techniques that could possibly be taught in a firstyear graduate course, except maximum likelihood, are treated as special cases of gmm generalized methods of moments. Im very surprised that nobody has yet cited paul samuelsons classic foundations of economic analysis.
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