Research
Fellow,
Institute
for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn, Germany
Visiting Researcher, Instituto de Investigaciones
en Ciencias Economicas,
University
of Costa Rica, San Jose, Costa Rica
Current Research and Publications
Recent
media interest in my research
For questions and other communications regarding
the M. A.
in Economic Policy Analysis: econ-masters@umbc.edu
For other messages: gindling@umbc.edu
ECON102 Principles of Macroeconomics
OLD
EXAM #1 PROBLEM SET #1
PROBLEM
SET #4
OLD EXAM #2
PROBLEM
SET #2 PROBLEM SET #5
OLD FINAL EXAM
PROBLEM
SET #3
Some good explanations of the origin of the Financial Crisis:
1. George Bush's address to the nation: video
and transcript
2. "The Global Pool of Money Got Too Hungry" from NPR: Full 55
minute
episode Shorter
(13 minute) version
3. "What Went Wrong" from the Washington Post:
Part 1: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/14/AR2008101403343_pf.html
Part 2: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/15/AR2008121503561.html
ECON 385, Economic
Development
Syllabus and reading
list
ECON387 Economic Development of Latin America
Web Page
for ECON
387, Economic Development of Latin America
ECON611 Advanced
Econometric Methods
I
QUIZES
PROBLEM SETS
Syllabus
quiz 1
ps1.dta
(zipped)
Old
Exam 1
quiz 2
documentation
for
ps1.dta
Old
Final Exam
quiz 3
PROBLEM SET
#1
quiz 4
PROBLEM SET
#2
quiz
5
PROBLEM SET
#3
quiz 6
PROBLEM SET
#4
ps5.dta,
crime2.dta,
murder.dta
PROBLEM
SET #5
PROBLEM
SET #6
data set for problem set #6 (FISH.DTA)
variables in FISH.DTA (FISH.DES)
USEFUL LARGE
DATA SETS (FREE)
Current Population
Surveys:
www.bls.census.gov/cps/
1965-2009 CPS
data with
commond coding from IPUMS
Other large data sets
from U.
S. government (free)
1850-2000
U.S. Census and 2001-2007 ACS with common variable codes from IPUMS
Link to National Longitudinal
Surveys
(NLS): http://www.bls.gov/nls/home.htm
Household Surveys from other countries (free)--World Bank Living
Standards
Measurement Project
International
Census data
from IPUMS
International
Country-Level Panel Data Sets
Link
to Stata: www.stata.com
Introduction to Stata (.do file)--save
(download)
this file and open it in the ".do" window
Introduction to Stata (.log file)
Using Stata to test hypotheses about
regression
coefficients (.log file from class)
ECON486/686
TOPICS IN
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT--INEQUALITY
Syllabus
and
reading list
Data and
documentation for problem sets and class
Inequality
Measures using quintile data with EXCEL
Inequality
Measures using centile data with EXCEL
Problem
Set #1
Problem Set #2
Problem Set #3
Problem Set #4
Mid-term
Exam
Problem Set #5
The Generalized Inequality Measures Programs
ECON612, Advanced
Econometric
Methods II
Syllabus
and
reading list for the first half of the course
Syllabus
and
reading list for the second half of the course (Marcotte)
Problem
sets,
problem set answers, STATA programs, and other stuff