Chapter 3 Pre-requisites
Most students with some prior experience with statistical software can effectively reproduce and assess articles. In economics, most articles use either Stata or Matlab.
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Software in economics
Students should be comfortable working on a variety of computers, including their own, and be flexible with respect to the location of computing. If you don’t know what that means, you’ll find out during training!