JEFFREY M. WOOLDRIDGE

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Ofrece una exposición seria y autosuficiente del análisis económico con un método empírico, es decir, sin cálculo ni demasiadas matemáticas, dirigido a estudiantes de licenciatura en economía, sin embargo, el texto tambien es adecuado para cursos introductorios a nivel maestria y a estudiantes de doctorado que encontraran en el un apoyo util para sus estudios avanzados.

This is the essential companion to the second edition of Jeffrey Wooldridges widely used graduate econometrics text. The text provides an intuitive but rigorous treatment of two state-of-the-art methods used in contemporary microeconomic research. The numerous end-of-chapter exercises are an important component of the book, encouraging the student to use and extend the analytic methods presented in the book. This manual contains advice for answering selected problems, new examples, and supplementary materials designed by the author, which work together to enhance the benefits of the text. Users of the textbook will find the manual a necessary adjunct to the book.

Introducir a la econometría desde la perspectiva de los usuarios profesionales, simplifica la enseñanza de esta asignatura, además de hacerla mucho más interesante a los alumnos. Por ello, en esta segunda edicion, se mantiene el enfasis sobre la aplicacion de la econometria a problemas del mundo real. Cada metodo econometrico se motiva con una cuestion especifica a la que los investigadores que analizan datos no experimentales tienen que enfrentarse. La caracteristica que diferencia mas claramente este manual de otros es la separacion de los temas en funcion del tipo de datos que se analizan. En este manual se le da especial importancia a la comprension e interpretacion de los supuestos teniendo presentes aplicaciones empiricas reales: el dominio de matematicas que se requiere no va mas alla de los conocimientos de algebra que adquirimos en la universidad y de nociones basicas de probabilidad y estadistica.

Este libro, líder en el mercado, tiene por objetivo proporcionar una forma diferente de analizar la econometría y su aplicación a problemas reales. Cada método econométrico está motivado por una cuestion particular que enfrentan los investigadores que analizan datos no experimentales. El punto central en la obra es entender e interpretar las hipotesis a la luz de aplicaciones empiricas reales, las matematicas que se requieren son solo algebra preuniversitaria y elementos basicos de probabilidad y estadistica.

The second edition of a comprehensive state-of-the-art graduate level text on microeconometric methods, substantially revised and updated.The second edition of this acclaimed graduate text provides a unified treatment of two methods used in contemporary econometric research, cross section and data panel methods. By focusing on assumptions that can be given behavioral content, the book maintains an appropriate level of rigor while emphasizing intuitive thinking. The analysis covers both linear and nonlinear models, including models with dynamics and/or individual heterogeneity. In addition to general estimation frameworks (particular methods of moments and maximum likelihood), specific linear and nonlinear methods are covered in detail, including probit and logit models and their multivariate, Tobit models, models for count data, censored and missing data schemes, causal (or treatment) effects, and duration analysis.Econometric Analysis of Cross Section and Panel Data was the first graduate econometrics text to focus on microeconomic data structures, allowing assumptions to be separated into population and sampling assumptions. This second edition has been substantially updated and revised. Improvements include a broader class of models for missing data problems; more detailed treatment of cluster problems, an important topic for empirical researchers; expanded discussion of "generalized instrumental variables" (GIV) estimation; new coverage (based on the authors own recent research) of inverse probability weighting; a more complete framework for estimating treatment effects with panel data, and a firmly established link between econometric approaches to nonlinear panel data and the "generalized estimating equation" literature popular in statistics and other fields. New attention is given to explaining when particular econometric methods can be applied; the goal is not only to tell readers what does work, but why certain "obvious" procedures do not. The numerous included exercises, both theoretical and computer-based, allow the reader to extend methods covered in the text and discover new insights.