Labor economics — Hunan U

Intro to statistical learning. Freely available here.

The authors (who are world renowned statisticians) also provide accompanying videos and R/Python notebooks here. That’s the main reason why I choose this book as our textbook: if you don’t like my teaching, you may learn directly from the masters by yourself.

Learning microeconometrics with R. This book is copyrighted and I may not post a PDF here. But you can get a free PDF at libgen.

Besides libgen, another useful resource is scihub. You can use scihub to download the papers mentioned in the class.

(For ambitious students) Mostly Harmless Econometrics by Angrist and Pischke. Draft here

This book is a classic and viewed by many as the “bible” for empirical labor economists. It is a PhD-level textbook and is generally more difficult than the course contents.