Economics H195A
Senior Honor's Thesis Seminar
University of California, Berkeley
Fall 2002
Professor Martha Olney

SENIOR HONOR'S THESIS SEMINAR


Syllabus (pdf file)
(Adobe Acrobat Reader required: download here)

Past Theses

From "I want to write a thesis" 
to "Here is my topic, my research question(s), my data set, my prospectus, and my advisor" in
11 sometimes-easy steps
Information about Potential Advisors
List of Thesis Titles, Spring 2000
Economics Faculty, 
by Area of Interest
List of Thesis Titles, Spring 2001
 
List of Thesis Titles, Spring 2002
Economics Faculty Interviews 
(all years combined)




Links to useful or interesting papers, handouts, guides
Hal Varian's paper 
"How to Build an Economic Model in Your Spare Time"
(pdf file)
A guide to reading articles
(.doc file)
Liz Cascio's handout 
"A guide to using Microsoft Excel"
(.xls file from Ec 140)



Where to find the
TSP software
Installing TSP
(.doc file from Ec 141)
Using TSP
(.doc file from Ec 141)



Stata.com website

Purchasing Stata with GradPlan

Online help for stata

Econ 190 students' favorite help link

 The Iowa Data Set
(.xls file)
   
The Iowa Data set
as of noon on 9/30/02
(.dta file)




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Page prepared by Prof. M. Olney
Last updated 5/5/2003.