Computer Labs

We will be programming in the Julia language, and we access Julia from the VS Code editor.

Your typical workflow starts by starting VS Code and then opening a so-called Jupyter notebook which contains your coding exercises.

You can find all the Jupyter notebooks in my public Github repo

Here is a brief overview of what we cover during the next 12 weeks:

Week

Topic covered in the computer labs

1

no labs

2

First steps in VS Code, Jupyter, and Julia

3

Simulating the weak law of large numbers

4

Simulating the central limit theorem

5

OLS estimation of return to schooling

6

IV estimation of return to schooling

7

2SLS estimation of return to schooling

8

Monte Carlo simulation of a schooling model

9

Empirical power analysis under weak IV

10

Maximum likelihood estimation

11

Probit and logit estimation

12

MLE of the normal regression model