ECON 222 Data Science and Applied Microeconomics

Technological advances are creating new opportunities and challenges in the observation of economic behavior and changing the scope of empirical economics. This course exposes students to a variety of approaches to “large n” and “large p” problems and familiarizes students with recent research that has used big data to push the cutting-edge of applied microeconomics and finance. Through a combination of assignments (labs) and work on an independent project, students acquire the statistical and computational tools needed for making use of big data in empirical research.