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Assignments

Special software is required to use some of the files in this section: .dta.

This section contains the course assignments, along with the data needed to complete the homework. The codebook file contains information on the dataset. Assigned book problems are taken from Borjas, G. Labor Economics. 3rd ed. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 2004. ISBN: 0072871776.

Assignment files.
ASSIGNMENTS	DATA
Review Problem Set (PDF)
Problem Set 1 (PDF)	The Economic Report of the President has all of the data you should require, pre-formatted as Excel tables. If that's not enough for you, additional wage and employment data can be found from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Problem Set 2 (PDF)	STATA® Dataset (DTA) Codebook (PDF)
Problem Set 3 (PDF)	Dataset (DTA - 2.3 MB) Codebook (PDF)
Problem Set 4 (PDF)	Dataset (DTA - 3.9 MB) Codebook (PDF)