{"id":3218,"date":"2020-02-06T11:15:05","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T16:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/?page_id=3218"},"modified":"2020-05-23T13:48:07","modified_gmt":"2020-05-23T17:48:07","slug":"stata","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/home\/training-research-and-resources\/other-resources-and-skills\/research-skills\/software\/stata\/","title":{"rendered":"Software: Stata"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/home\/training-research-and-resources\/skills\/\" title=\"Skills\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\n\t\tSkills\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/h1>\n<h1>\n\t\tNavigating Stata\n\t<\/h1>\n\t<p>Stata is the preferred statistical software of many economists, although far from the only available.<\/p>\n<p>Pricing varies by country, use, and the number of users. If your department doesn&#8217;t have a Stata license and the price tag is too high for you, but you&#8217;re feeling frustrated with the lack of power of Microsoft Excel, you might want to <a href=\"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/home\/resources\/research-skills\/software\/r\/\">check out R<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>\n\t\tGeneral Stata Resources recommended by the Williams College Economics Department\n\t<\/h3>\n\t<p><a href=\"https:\/\/econ.williams.edu\/online-resources\/#stata\">(reproduced directly from the Williams College economics website<\/a>)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2011\/01\/stata-resources.html\">Alex Tabarrok&#8217;s guide to Stata Resources<\/a>.\u00a0 (Many of the links below are taken from this)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/stats.idre.ucla.edu\/stata\/\">Resources to Help you Learn and Use Stata, by UCLA Academic Technology Services<\/a>.\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/stats.idre.ucla.edu\/stata\/modules\/\">UCLA&#8217;s &#8220;Stata Starter Kit&#8221;<\/a>.\u00a0 Good place for beginners to start.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/data.princeton.edu\/stata\/\">German Rodriguez&#8217;s free Stata Tutorial<\/a>.\u00a0 A good place to start for the basics.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cpc.unc.edu\/research\/tools\/data_analysis\/statatutorial\">University of North Carolina Stata Tutorial<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stata.com\/meeting\/proceedings.html\">Proceedings of the Stata Users Group meetings<\/a>.\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stata.com\/meeting\/germany09\/nichols.pdf\">Austin Nichols&#8217; presentation on &#8220;Causal inference with observational data: Regression Discontinuity and related methods in Stata.&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stata.com\/meeting\/wcsug07\/cameronwcsug.pdf\">Colin Cameron&#8217;s presentation on &#8220;&#8221;Panel data methods for microeconometrics using Stata&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stata.com\/support\/faqs\/graphics\/gph\/statagraphs.html\">Stata&#8217;s visual overview for creating graphs<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/personal.lse.ac.uk\/lembcke\/ecStata\/2009\/MResStataNotesJan2009PartA.pdf\">London School of\u00a0 Economics &#8220;Introduction to Stata&#8221; course.<\/a> Detailed class notes by Alexander C. Lembcke.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/personal.lse.ac.uk\/lembcke\/ecStata\/2009\/MResStataNotesFeb2009PartB.pdf\">London School of Economics &#8220;Advanced Stata&#8221; course<\/a>.\u00a0 Detailed class notes by Alexander C. Lembcke.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stata.com\/bookstore\/statabooks.html\">Books about Stata<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stata.com\/bookstore\/daus2.html\">Data Analysis Using Stata, 2nd Edition<\/a> by Ulrich Kohler and Frauke Kreuter. Google books excerpt available <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=4rrsRqUSls8C&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;dq=data+analysis+using+stata+kohler&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=y_I6C-yLbg&amp;sig=AHRghgfkkgOiIzGIFAjh90IRfHc&amp;hl=en&amp;ei=BoxUTfW4N4P-8Abiscj3Bg&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=book_result&amp;ct=result&amp;resnum=4&amp;ved=0CDUQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Excellent advice from economists Matthew Gentzkow and Jesse Shapiro on how to write computer code in a language such as Stata is available <a href=\"http:\/\/web.stanford.edu\/~gentzkow\/research\/CodeAndData.pdf\">here<\/a>. This is what they give to their research assistants to teach them good coding practices. Every economics student should learn how to do this.\u00a0 Modern economic research is mostly about writing computer code.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>\n\t\tRegressions\n\t<\/h3>\n\t<ul>\n<li>UCLA&#8217;s &#8220;Stata Web Books&#8221;: <a href=\"https:\/\/stats.idre.ucla.edu\/stata\/webbooks\/reg\/\"><em>Regressions with Stata<\/em><\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Includes comprehensive examples that you can follow along with, and several suggestions for books <em>just<\/em> on regression, if you really want to dive deeper<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/home\/training-research-and-resources\/skills\/research-skills\/software\/\" target=\"_self\" role=\"button\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tGo to the software skills page\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/home\/training-research-and-resources\/skills\/data-sources\/\" target=\"_self\" role=\"button\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tView our data page\n\t\t\t<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skills Navigating Stata Stata is the preferred statistical software of many economists, although far from the only available. 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