Coding help

[ananyobrahma]

As you already know by now, the early results for your projects are to be presented next week. I am creating this discussion for you to seek help with coding from me, Pascal, and your peers. We will spend time on the project during lectures this week. In addition, I will earmark some time during sections for the project since I didn’t have office hours this week.

A common hurdle in empirical research is that we seldom have all the data we need in one dataset. When we find the information across multiple datasets, we need to merge them together to create a dataset before the analysis. You can do this using the merge command in both Stata and base R. You need a set of keys (variables that uniquely identify each observation) in at least one of the datasets you are merging. Try writing help merge in Stata or help(merge) in R to learn more about merging.