Econ c142 Berkeley
Econ c142 Berkeley
Econ c142 Berkeley
Reference Materials
There is no required text for the class. The following are recommended references:
Jeffrey Wooldridge Introductory Econometrics: A Modern Approach. Any edition from 3 onward
will be useful. We recommend trying to buy a used recent edition.
Gareth James, Daniela Witten, Trevor Hastie and Robert Tibshirani. An Introduction to
Statistical Learning with Applications in R (ISLR). This book is available for free at
http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~gareth/ISL/ : this site also other useful related materials.
You will also want to have access to a good book on probability and statistics at the advanced
undergraduate level. There are many: for example, DeGroot and Schevish Probability and
Statistics is extremely clear and methodical.
Another book you may find useful is:
Joshua Angrist and Jorn-Steffen Pischke, Mostly Harmless Econometrics. This is a bit advanced
but is written by two labor economists (and former PhD students of DC) so it has a similar
perspective on many applied issues as will be adopted in this class.
Finally, there are many great Wikis on most of the topics we will cover.
Web Site
There is a class site on bcourses where we will post problem sets, data, and reference
materials. Students should to check the site frequently for updates.