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The Course Gender Economics will be structured as follows:

There will be three lecture-type sessions in which the students will get an overview of the most important topics and questions in the field of Gender Economics. After that, all students will get a research question for their oral presentation and their written seminar paper. There will be two or three sessions (depending on the number of participants) at the end of June for the oral presentations. Final papers have to be submitted in August. Exact date will be communicated in the course.

Course Requirements:

1. Oral presentation

2. Active participation in the discussion

3. Written seminar paper

The aim of the course is to familiarize students with estimation techniques for panel data. Starting from the linear one- and two-way error component models, we will venture into different advanced challenges in panel econometrics, including dynamic and non-linear panel models. In accompanying computer sessions, we will implement some of the estimators ourselves in R.

The main accompanying textbook for the course is "Econometric Analysis of Panel Data" by Badi Baltagi (5th edition). Additional references will be given in the lecture.

Successful prior completion of "Advanced Microeconometrics" (or equivalent) is expected.

The course will be assessed with a 90 minute exam, including both a theory and a computer component.

The course targets students of the Master in "Economic Policy and Quantitative Methods" and PhD students of the Berlin School of Economics. Other interested students with advanced previous knowledge in econometrics are also welcome in the course.