Spring 2011

I am a TA for Eil's Econ 100a class.  My office hours are Wednesday 10-11:00 in SH 228. 

Useful Links:

Economics:

• Intro to Economic Analysis: A free open-source textbook for undergraduate economics.  Written by a Caltech professor, it is more mathematically advanced than the typical undergraduate textbook.

• MIT Course Notes: Has notes for a large portion of MIT courses (not just Economics).  Useful to see another point of view if you get stuck or if you want to see more advanced material/presentation.

• Online Lectures: Econometrics lectures from Mark Thomas
  

• Mathematics Tutorial: html tutorial for mathematical methods used in economics.

• Supply and Demand: A good discussion of the subtleties in analyzing supply and demand. 

Software:

• Notes on Excel in Econ: UC Davis professor's tutorial specifically for using Excel to analyze Economics data.  Assumes no knowledge of Excel.
  

• Learning STATA:  STATA is a more advanced statistical package that may be used in the upper division Econ courses.  
• Princeton stata tutorial: here.
• UCLA's stata page: class notes and movies.
• More advanced Stata topics: LSE's PhD notes here and here.
• These are taken from the blog Marginal Revolution, which also has book recommendations and other Stata resources.

• Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics:  Answers almost any question you could have about math.  It's supported by Wolfram Research (aka Mathematica).  Also has a page for Physics, Chemistry, and Astronomy.

Past TA appointments: 

Econ 1: Introductory Microeconomics

Econ 100a: Microeconomics 

Econ 120a: Econometrics

Econ 136: Human Resources

Econ 172a,b: Operations research

Mgmt 282: Economic Crises