2nd German Stata Users Group meeting

Photo used with permission of the WZB

Date: Monday, 5 April 2004   Venue: Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB) Reichpietschufer 50 D-10785 Berlin Germany   Cost: regular 15 €; students 10 € See Registration and accommodations for more details

The second German Stata Users Group Meeting will be held on Monday, 5 April 2004 in Berlin at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB).

The content of the meeting is being organized by Johannes Giesecke, Humboldt University Berlin (johannes.giesecke@rz.hu-berlin.de) and Ulrich Kohler, WZB (kohler@wz-berlin.de).

Presentations will focus on three main topics: user-written Stata programs, research and teaching experience using Stata, and critiques of Stata facilities in specific fields. The conference language was in English due to the 'international' nature of the meeting and the participation of non-German guest speakers.

Program (Click on the title to view the abstract and additional information.) 08:30 Registration and coffee/tea 09:00 Welcome Part I: User-written Stata programs 09:15 Circular statistics in Stata, revisited Nicholas J. Cox Durham University, UK 09:55 Fitting functional forms to distributions, using -ml- Stephen P. Jenkins ISER, University of Essex 10:35 Coffee break, refreshments 10:50 Tabulation of multiple response sets, revisited Ben Jann ETH Zurich 11:20 Playing with Stata dialogs: An enhanced recent file list Dankwart Plattner KfW Frankfurt 11:50 Biplots, revisited Ulrich Kohler WZB 12:20 Lunch Part II: General Statistics 14:00 Generalized partially linear models Roberto Gutierrez StataCorp 14:40 Conditional logit versus random coefficient models: an analysis using GLLAMM Peter Haan DIW 15:10 Coffee break, refreshments Part III: Applications 15:20 Effects of macroeconomic uncertainty on leverage for US non-financial firm Andreas Stephan European University Viadrina, DIW Oleksandr Talavera European University Viadrina, DIW 15:50 The potential determinants of German firms' technical efficiency: An application using industry level data Andreas Stephan European University Viadrina Oleg Badunenko European University Viadrina 16:20 Coffee break, refreshments 16:30 Influence of fertility on women's participation in the labor market and their wages — the alternative cost of having a child Joanna Cieciel Department of Economics, University of Warsaw Andrzej Tomoszewski Department of Economics, University of Warsaw Part IV: Simply Stata 17:00 Stata and the newcomer Svend Juul Department of Epidemiology and Social Medicine, University of Aarhus, Denmark 17:30 Coffee break, refreshments 17:40 Report to Users Alan Riley StataCorp 18:10 Wishes and grumbles 18:45 Planning of the 3rd Stata Users Group meeting 2005 19:00 End of meeting

Registration and accommodations

The logistics of the conference was organized by Dittrich and Partner, distributor of Stata in several countries including Germany and Austria (www.dpc.de).