PART I: Statistical Foundations

1. An Introduction to Data Analysis in Economics

2. Displaying and Describing Data

3. Probability and Sampling Distributions

4. Statistical Inference and Hypothesis Testing

PART II: Fundamentals of Data Analysis and Econometrics

5. Correlation, Simple Regression, and Causality

6. An Introduction to Multiple Regression

7. Dummy Variables and Functional Forms

8. Multiple Regression and Model Specification

PART III: Further Topics in Data Analysis and Econometrics

9. Instrumental Variables and Two‐Stage Least Squares

10. Categorical and Limited Dependent Variable Models

11. Time‐Series Models

12. Pooled and Panel‐Data Models

13. Writing an Empirical Paper

APPENDICES

Appendix A: Getting Started with R

Appendix B: Statistical Tables

References

Index of R Commands

General Index