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Author:
Jeffrey M. Wooldridge
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Copyright: 2025
ISBN-13: 978-0-357-90016-1
Pages: 848; hardcover
Author:
Jeffrey M. Wooldridge
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Copyright: 2025
ISBN-13:
Pages: 848; eBook
Author:
Jeffrey M. Wooldridge
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Copyright: 2025
ISBN-13:
Pages: 848; Kindle

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The eighth edition of Jeffrey Wooldridge's textbook Introductory Econometrics: A Modern Approach lives up to its title in its choice of topics and its presentation of econometric and statistical concepts.

Wooldridge's approach aims to bridge the gap between how econometrics is taught in undergraduate courses and how empirical researchers actually use econometric methods. By introducing students directly to the perspective of professional users, Wooldridge makes the presentation of the different econometric techniques both easier and more engaging.

The author recognizes that modern econometrics involves much more than ordinary least squares (OLS) with a few extensions to handle the special cases commonly encountered in empirical data. Therefore, in addition to chapters on OLS, he includes chapters on current techniques of estimation and inference for time-series data, panel data, limited dependent variables, and sample selection.

In his treatments of OLS and two-stage least squares, Wooldridge breaks new ground by concentrating on advanced statistical concepts instead of matrix algebra. A traditional approach to introductory econometrics would use advanced sections to explain matrix algebra and its applications in econometrics. In contrast, Wooldridge uses the advanced sections of his text to introduce recently developed statistical concepts and techniques. This approach leads to a text with greater breadth than is usual in books of this type. This book is equally useful for advanced undergraduate study, as the basis of a survey course at the graduate level, or as a conceptual supplement to advanced courses.

The eighth edition introduces a whole new chapter on modern causal inference methods. The chapter begins with a concise presentation of the potential-outcomes framework, the parameters of interest in causal inference, and the assumptions required to consistently estimate treatment effects. Three estimators for the average treatment effect (ATE) and the average treatment effect on the treated (ATET) -- regression adjustment (RA), inverse probabilty weighting (IPW), and IPWRA -- are then introduced. The chapter also covers the estimation of local average treatment effects using instrumental variables, regression discontinuity designs, and control functions. All of these methods can be easily implemented using Stata.

In addition, this edition features new sections on fractional response models, difference-in-difference-in-differences estimation, event studies, updated empirical examples, and much more. The result is that an excellent introductory book has been made even better.

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