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Welcome to my adventure in teaching undergraduate introductory econometrics without a textbook. As you can read in more detail on the "About" page, I am prepping my fall 2017 econometrics course without a standard textbook. My goal is to focus the course more on the "doing" of econometrics and issues of research design and causality rather than econometric theory. I have been unsatisfied with the results of my course for some time, but after reading Angrist & Pischke's NBER Working Paper "Undergraduate Econometrics: Through Our Classes, Darkly" I decided to pull off the band aid and make some big changes. I believe that my students will be the better for it. This blog will trace my adventure, starting with the summer of preparations, and provide many of the materials (ex. my lecture notes and syllabus) I will use in the course. For the first iteration, I am borrowing heavily from Masters Angrist and Pischke and others who have helped their students "master 'metrics" before me. I will make changes after the semester is over to fit the course (if needed) to my students. There are a lot of unknowns right now and this course is certainly a work in progress! Below is the first draft of my syllabus. You will see that students are required to read several journal articles and Mastering 'Metrics (MM). There is not a standard textbook. The webpage for MM provides many resources including data sets and links to other courses using the book. I image that I will make use of it frequently this fall semester. Note: Syllabus updated 7/19/2017
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