Graduate Course Reading Lists, Advice, and Quantile and QTE Lecture and Do File, INID, and Replication Files, Bitler, Corcoran, Domina, and Penner & Bitler, Hoynes, and Iselin.

This page contains a number of teaching and mentoring related resources as well as replication files.

1) Links to reading lists for my graduate applied empirical methods (Fall 2025) and public expenditures (Winter 2025, half) courses.

Reading list, Public Expenditures Econ 230C (half quarter course), Spring 2025: Link to public reading list Spring 2025 Link to accessible public reading list Spring 2025, part 1 Link to accessible public reading list Spring 2025, part 2

Reading list, Applied Methods, Econ 230A, Fall 2025: Link to methods reading list, Fall 25  Link to accessible methods reading list Fall 25, part 1 Link to accesssible methods

2) Links to lecture notes by Marianne Bitler on quantile regression, QTE, and IV versions of QR and QTE (Project III of PO1) and the associated Stata program that creates estimates and figures in the lecture notes, funded by NICHD PO1 Grant HD065704. (Some additional stata ado files are required as described in do file.) I have checked the code, but use at your own risk. Please let me know if you find any errors. 

QTE lecture notes:  Link to QTE lecture notes These are old, if you need help accessing them please email me at bitler@ucdavis.edu

QTE do file Link to QTE do file  If you have trouble accessing this please email me at bitler@ucdavis.edu

3) Tar files with replication materials for Bitler, Corcoran, Domina, and Penner, 2021. 

The first is called replication.tar and has the files for the ECLS-K analysis in the appendix. 

Tar file for ECLS-K:  Link to tar file for ECLS-K

The second is called "Teacher effects on height - replication files.zip

Tar file for replication for NYC data: Link to tar file for code for NYC data  

4) Zip file and appendix file with replication materials for Bitler, Hoynes, and Iselin 2021.

Replication files:  Link to zipped replication files, Bitler, Hoynes, and Iselin 2021 

5) Notes on publishing from mentoring talk: Link to publishing advice