Stata Tutorial: Gathering Cross Sectional Data

We walk through the initial steps of your first introduction to econometrics data project. This tutorial is targeted at undergraduate students taking their first course in econometrics, and who have been tasked with putting together data for their first regression model project.

We explore the World Bank as a data source for country-level cross sectional data, walk though the downloading process, and do some initial data cleaning, showing the commands and results in Stata each step of the way.

Link to World Bank open data access page:
https://data.worldbank.org/

Link to "Good Economics for Hard Times" by Banerjee and Duflo:
https://amzn.to/2C5k0xP

Link to "Development as Freedom" by Sen:
https://amzn.to/3hxEYWA

Link to the excellent Introduction to Econometrics Textbook by AH Studenmund:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/933...

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