Education, Labour, and Health Economics: Applications with the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) - Einzelansicht

This course is centered around the replication of published studies with the SOEP

• You do the replication (in groups of 2-3)
• Prof. Siedler will provide support for you to replicate the paper, including
• SOEP Data + Intro to SOEP
• Stata + Exercises how to use Stata for handling the SOEP data
• Provide a discussion forum for questions
• Guiding principle: Helping you to help yourselves

2 presentations and seminar paper (max. 15 pages, incl. tables, figures and references)

• Conduct an empirical analysis using individual micro-data
• Extend your Stata knowledge
• Overview over a complex data set, the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP)
• Read, understand and extend scientific articles
• Apply knowledge from your econometrics course
• Deepen knowledge in one important field of economics: health economics, labor economics, economics of education
• Course will be very useful as preparation for your own empirical Master (and PhD) thesis