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Professor T. H. (Tim) Gindling

Professor, Department of Economics
                   Graduate Program Director, M.A. in Economic Policy Analysis

                                   2021-2022 Lipitz Professor of  in the Arts, Humanitites and Social Sciences

                                University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250

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

Senior Non-resident Fellow, United Nations World Institute for Development Economics

Curriculum Vitae

Media interest in my research




ECON387 Economic Development of Latin America 

Syllabus

 

ECON611 Advanced Econometric Methods I                                     QUIZES            PROBLEM SETS             
Syllabus                                                                                               quiz 1               CPS23M.dta
Old Exam 1                                                                                         quiz 2               
Old Final Exam                                                                                    quiz 3               PROBLEM SET #1

                                                                                                                                   

                                                                                                            quiz 4                PROBLEM SET #2

                                                                                                           quiz 5                 PROBLEM SET #3
                                                                                                           quiz 6                PROBLEM SET #4
                                                                                                                                        crime2.dta,  murder.dta
                                                                                                                                    PROBLEM SET #5
                                                                                                                                    PROBLEM SET #6

                                                                                                                                         data set for problem set #6 (FISH.DTA)

                                                                                                                                         variables in FISH.DTA (FISH.DES)

Link to Stata: www.stata.com                                                                                             MROZ.dta
                                                                                                                                         variables in MROZ.dta (MROZ.DES)
STATA at UMBC
Stata help from UCLA Institute for Digital Research and Education
Introduction to  Stata (London School of Economics)

USEFUL FREE DATA SETS
Current Population Surveys   
      1965-2023 CPS data with common coding from IPUMS
 1850-2010 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 
International Census and other micro data from IPUMS
International Country-Level Panel Data Sets

 



 ECON102 Principles of Macroeconomics

Syllabus

OLD EXAM #1             PROBLEM SET #1      PROBLEM SET #4     
OLD EXAM #2             PROBLEM SET #2      PROBLEM SET #5
OLD FINAL EXAM     PROBLEM SET #3      PROBLEM SET #6

Instructions for registering for MyEconlab

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




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