Welcome to Econ 485

Welcome to Econ 485: Advanced Econometrics

On this page, you will find some class documents and useful links.

Fall 2009

College Grades Paper for class 8/26

CollegeDistance.xls data set

caschools.xls dataset

More on Venn Diagrams for Regression

sat_data_1999_2002.txt

Some Paper: thesea re some papers that I spoke about in class on 10/21

paper1:federal spending in the states
paper2: FDI
paper3: growth in switzerland
paper4: leverage
paper5:motor voter

Nov 24th: For Project 3, the file loan data file with the link below needs to be downloaded by right clicking the file and SAVE TARGET AS.
When you save the file, you need to CHNAGE the file extension to .sas7bdat. Although the file name has a .xls extension, it is incorrect. The file
is actually a permanent SAS dataset, and its file name should end with .sas7bdat.
The JMU security won't allow me to post files with the .sas7bdat extension, but it allows the .xls extension. So, when I posted the file, I
simply renamed the extension to .xls even though it is not an Excel file. To read the file, run the following code, after you have saved the file as
hmda_subset.sas7bdat to a location such as J:\ ,

libname mydat 'J:\';
data one;
set mydat.hmda_subset;

proc contents;
run;

Data files for Project 3 loan data and JEC data and description ( the JEC data file truly is an Excel .xls file)

SAS Snippets I will add to this page helpful blocks of code that some of you can use to organize and clean up your data sets.

TIME SERIES in a Nutshell NOTES

DATA SOURCES

Barro Lee Educational attainment data

marriage rates
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvss/marriage90_04.pdf

birthrates (click on subnational)http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/datawh/vitalstats/VitalStatsbirths.htm

Data on Infant Mortality http://datacenter.kidscount.org/data/acrossstates/Rankings.aspx?ind=20

crime data
http://bjsdata.ojp.usdoj.gov/dataonline/Search/Crime/Crime.cfm

labor force participation for 2005 and 2004, more would be needed

http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/tables/08s0575.pdf

http://www.census.gov/compendia/smadb/TableA-29.pdf

Education Data

http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/

Educational attainment

http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/educ-attn.html

Per capita Income by MSA or by State is found here:

http://www.bea.gov/regional/reis/

old: per capital personal income by state (in nominal dollars) is here

old: real per capita GDP by state is here

income

http://www.bea.gov/

State GDP

http://www.bea.gov/regional/gsp/

Union membership

2006 and 2007

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/union2.t05.htm

2005 and 2006

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/History/union2_01252007.txt

2003 and 2004

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/History/union2_01272005.txt

all years 2000-2007 (needs cleaning up)

http://www.bls.gov/webapps/legacy/cpslutab5.htm

poverty data

http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty/prevdetailtabs.html

http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty/histpov/perindex.html

Unemployment rates by state

http://www.bls.gov/lau/#tables

At the Center for Disease Control, lots of neat stuff, just don't get lost! http://wonder.cdc.gov/

American Community Survey at the Census: http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/DownloadDatasetServlet?_lang=en&_ts=256218576449

Data on many different aspects of the economy esp. federal budget issues, but lots of good state level data. This site is essentially a compilation of lots of data that came from elsewhere, such as the Census Bureau. When using data from this source, make sure to note and record the original source of the data http://www.nationalpriorities.org/nppdatabase_tool

Some higher education data

http://www.higheredinfo.org/

Some Baseball Web sites:
http://baseballguru.com/bbdata1.html
http://www.thomasgeorge.com/baseball/stats.cfm

http://baseball1.com/