Readings

Texts

The suggested text is:

Neugeboren, Robert. The Student's Guide To Writing Economics. New York, NY: Routledge, 2005. ISBN: 0415701228.

Other texts you might want to consult are:

Thomson, William. A Guide for the Young Economist. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001. ISBN: 0262700794.

Berndt, Ernst. The Practice of Econometrics: Classic and Contemporary. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1996. ISBN: 0201176289.

Strunk, William, and E. B. White. Elements of Style. Boston, MA: Allyn and Bacon, 2000. ISBN: 020530902X.

Stata manuals (for example: Rabe-Hesketh, S. A handbook of statistical analyses using Stata. Boca Raton, FL: Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2000. ISBN: 1584882018.), and The MIT Undergraduate Journal of Economics.

Background Readings

These readings are to accompany the Diamonds, Maple Syrup, and Trade and Wages data sets.

Bergeron, Nancy, and Roger Sedjo. "The Impact of El Niño on Northeastern Forests: A Case Study on Maple Syrup Production." Discussion Paper 99-43. Resources for the Future, June 1999; July 1999.

Saeger, Steven. "Globalization and Deindustrailization: Myth and Reality in the OECD." Weltwirtschaftlieches Archiv 133, no. 4 (1997).

Reese, Mike. "Hedonic Quality Adjustment Methods for College Textbooks in the U.S. CPI."