Stata Resources and Graphing Functions

For those of you that are looking into tips and insight on using Stata, the UCLA portal for the software is an excellent resource. On it you will find basic command usage, how to examine different variables, modifying your data, etc.

The link is permanently posted on the right under 'student resources'.

Stata 9.1 is now available for download from http://www.stata.com (thanks to Chris Month for the update).

Also, for those of you that are having trouble graphing functions (a recent assignment comes to mind) go to this link. It's not the current homework assignment, but the idea is to be able to mimic the formula and data resulting in the graph. It's a spreadsheet written in Excel, so if you have Microsoft Office, there's no need to download additional software.

As always, if you have additional suggestions, let me know and we'll post it.

Mandatory Thesis Meeting September 14th

There will be meeting for those interested in submitting their thesis before September of 2006 this coming Wednesday. It will be in the Economics conference room on the 15th floor of the Hunter West building at 7:30 p.m.

Attendance is required if you plan on handing in your thesis this year. Prof. Filer will review requirements, and also provide hints on how to get started.

Seminar series in Economics at Hunter

An invitation from Prof. Conning:

All BA/MA students are warmly invited to attend. The schedules for the two seminar series are the following:

Monday Brown Bag Seminar at Hunter College
http://urban.hunter.cuny.edu/RePEc/seminar/

Friday Labor and Human Resources seminar at the Graduate Center http://urban.hunter.cuny.edu/RePEc/seminar/gc.htm

Both are 1.5 hours in length (people are free to come and leave of course). The former is a bit more informal and often presents work in progress, while the latter has some pretty big names lined up and should be better attended.