ECON4640 - Political Economics

Semester page for ECON4640 - Spring 2016

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The exam

The format of the exam is going to be the following:

  • Two short questions, each weight 1/6 (so 30 min on each). Specific questions where you should provide an answer without too much discussion
  • A guided essay, total weight 2/3. Typically 3 to 7 sub-questions that are related and form a story together. Scope for more discussion and putting several parts of the curriculum together.

A few pieces of general advice:

  • Answer all questions
  • Use the curriculum. You may also use other sources, but all questions are related to the course and the curriculum
  • Often it is useful to provide some graphs or pieces of mathematical models as well as the text. Giving perfectly clear answers using text only is challenging.
May 24, 2016 3:55 PM
Additional reading on RDD

I posted the link to a  review paper on Regression Discontinuity Design in the teaching material session, to complement what we have been discussing in class and in the seminars.

An easier and shorter alternative would be chapter 6 of the book "Mostly Harmless Econometrics" by Angrist & Pischke.

Matteo

Apr. 22, 2016 4:45 PM
Contact student

The contact student is Hero Ezat.

Feb. 18, 2016 12:17 PM

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Department of Economics