Programming MLE models in Stata
Posted: January 30, 2011 Filed under: Data and code, Teaching | Tags: coding, Stata Leave a comment »Another set of notes from when I was TA for our Advanced Quantitative Methods course with Prof. Matt Golder in 2008. The notes for Programming MLE models in Stata (pdf) walk you through how to recreate your own logit regression command and ado files for Stata, as well as how to use simulations to check your model. Here are also the associated ado and do files.
The notes are closely based on Maximum Likelihood Estimation with Stata (2006, see full citation in the notes), which is definitely worth it if you are considering writing your own MLE commands in Stata.
Stata Basics
Posted: January 30, 2011 Filed under: Data and code, Teaching | Tags: Stata Leave a comment »A couple of lab notes from 2009, when I was TA for our Basic Quantitative Methods course:
Review of Basic Stata use (pdf) and associated files (zip folder).
OLS regression (pdf) and associated files (zip folder).
OLS Quantities of Interest (pdf) and associated files (zip folder).
Logit Quantities of Interest (pdf) and associated files (zip folder).
Bosnia 1991 municipalities
Posted: January 18, 2011 Filed under: Data and code | Tags: Bosnia, data, GIS Leave a comment »
This dates back to work I did in 2008, but some people seem to find it useful:
At the beginning of the Yugoslav civil wars, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) consisted of 109 municipalities. Finding free geographic layers with those municipal boundaries was difficult so I recreated them from National Geophysical Data Center Coastline Extractor, using World Data Bank II. Municipality names and demographic information come from the 1991 Yugoslav census courtesy wikipedia. This zipped folder contains both the ArcMap shapefiles as well as a copy of the working paper that describes in further detail how the boundary shapefiles were created, data sources, etc.
