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  First Summer Research Workshop
    Here you can find all information for the First Summer Economics Research Workshop at the LSE. Organised by Judith Shapiro and taught by Judith Shapiro, Sanchari Roy and Alexander C. Lembcke, the workshop is designed to introduce undergraduate students to modern research practice in economics. Classes and surgeries were provided over the course of four weeks. Below you can find the course material as well as classes captured on video.

  • Sanchari's website: Sanchari

  • Note: the videos should play fine using the Quicktime player on LSE computers. At home you might have to install some media player. The files tend to be large (about 300mb for 90 minutes). The easiest way to watch them is to start Quicktime (Programs - Media Player - Quicktime) and from within Quicktime open the URL (copy the link to the video file and within Quicktime use File - Open URL and paste the link). Some of the movies don't cover the whole class because the batteries gave up. The username and password will be circulated via eMail and is the same for all files.
  • General classes:
    • Introduction and welcome to the first LSE summer research workshop: Video
    • Personal research experience: Video
    • How to read and write papers: Notes
  • Econometrics classes:
    Handouts
  • Stata material:
    Data
    Stata class notes:
    Other commments:
    • Importing data from Excel into Stata and the Card data as Excel workbook to try it out.
    • If you use Stata regularly you might want to think about integrating Stata with an external editor. My personal favorite is WinEdt. I like the general style of the program as well that I can use Stata and Latex in the same program. The drawback is that WinEdt is not free. If you want to use WinEdt for Stata do-files you need to install the Stata add on. The command highlighting is a little outdated I think, but it works for me. If you want to use Latex and Stata you should also install AutoMode, a tool that switches your configuration automatically from Stata to Latex and back.

      Note: After installing Auto Mode as described on the website you will need to open the file "opt_menu.edt".
      There you will see a line: Assign(`anchor`, `{@ |@<}{Item:&Dictionary\.\.\.}>+ {Code:}+[0-9]>+{Image:}+[0-9]`);
      Which needs to be changed to: Assign(`anchor`, `{@ |@<}{Item:&Dictionary Manager\.\.\.}>+ {Code:}+[0-9]>+{Image:}+[0-9]`);
      Otherwise Auto Mode will give you nothing but an error message.

      A free alternative is Notepad++. This editor is extremely quick to start and is my favorite tool when I have a quick look at some file. I haven't used Notepad++ with Stata myself, but there you can find step-by-step instructions here.
      If you are not using Windows or would prefer another editor, you can find an extensive list of alternatives here.


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