Development Data Boot Camp – Course Materials

Top Level

• Syllabus (PDF)
• Final Project (PDF)

Slides

1. Introduction and Preparation

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  0101 — Programming Languages (PDF)
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  0102 — General Workflow Management (PDF)
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  0103 — RCT (PDF)
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  0104 — What Makes a Good RA (PDF)

2. Intro to Stata

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  0201 — Quick Start (PDF)
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  0202 — Dofiles (PDF)
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  0203 — More Tricks (PDF)
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  0204 — Programming (PDF)

3. Making Effective Graphs

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  03 — Graphs (PDF)

4. Linear Regression

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  0401 — Understand OLS (PDF)
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  0402 — Export Regression Tables (PDF)

5. Relational Databases

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  0501 — Reshape and Collapse (PDF)
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  0502 — Merge and Append (PDF)

6. Prepare for your own Research

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  0601 — Summary Statistics (PDF)
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  0602 — LaTeX (PDF)
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  aea.bst BibTeX style

7. String Commands

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  Stata Regular Expressions (PDF)

Class Exercise

• Class_Exercise/
  Class_Exercise_Questions.md Markdown
• Class_Exercise/dofiles/
  codes_for_class.do Stata do-file
• Class_Exercise/data/
  data.zip compressed data package

Exercise

• Exercise/
  Exercise Questions (PDF)
• Exercise/
  Solutions — Topic 1 (PDF)
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  Solutions — Topic 2 (PDF)
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  Solutions — Topic 3 (PDF)
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  Solutions — Topic 4 (PDF)
• Exercise/
  Solutions — Topic 5 (PDF)