Product Description

Succeed in econometrics with INTRODUCTORY ECONOMETRICS and its accompanying resources! Easy-to-read and student-friendly, this economics text places an emphasis on examples that give a concrete reality to economic relationships. With study tools found throughout the text, exam preparation and class projects have never been easier. Coverage of important knowledge used for empirical work and carrying out research projects in a variety of applied social science fields gives you a solid foundation for social science research.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #80347 in Books
• Published on: 2005-07-13
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 912 pages

Review
The approach taken by the author is very refreshing, and I agree that his approach is more consistent with my common econometric practice.

This book helps minimize my effort in motivation and applications. I love the data availability and connectivity it provides. I am also less reluctant to teach undergraduate and early masters level courses given that this text can do a great deal of "handholding" of students on my behalf.

About the Author
Jeffrey M. Wooldridge is University Distinguished Professor of Economics at Michigan State University, where he has taught since 1991. From 1986 to 1991, he was Assistant Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Wooldridge has published more than three dozen articles in internationally recognized journals, as well as several book chapters. He is also the author of Econometric Analysis of Cross Section and Panel Data. His awards include an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, the Multa Scripsit award from ECONOMETRIC THEORY, the Sir Richard Stone prize from the JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECONOMETRICS, and three graduate teacher-of-the-year awards from MIT. A fellow of the ECONOMETRIC SOCIETY and of the JOURNAL OF ECONOMETRICS, Dr. Wooldridge has been editor of the JOURNAL OF BUSINESS AND ECONOMIC STATISTICS and econometrics co-editor of ECONOMICS LETTERS, and he has served on the editorial boards of the JOURNAL OF ECONOMETRICS and the REVIEW OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS. Dr. Wooldridge received his bachelor of arts, with majors in computer science and economics, from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1982, and received his doctorate in economics in 1986 from the University of California, San Diego.

Customer Reviews

lovely
simply sophisticated and sophisticately simple, did the trick but if you are completely new to metrics, read it after christopher

Great Exposition, but Poor Notation
Great introduction to the subject, but the notation is poor. By presenting the material without matrix algebra, the multiple regression analysis becomes a convoluted mess of summation notation. Additionally, matrix notation is adopted in more advanced texts, making in beneficial to learn from the start.

A very good book
Wooldridge's explanations are clear and useful. After a semester hacking my way through the dense brush of matrices in Greene's book, I realized I needed some help. Now I go to Wooldridge's treatment first, to make sure I understand the main concepts. Then I go to Greene for the detail, if I need to.