Stata primer (thanks to James Manley)

• Introduction to Stata

After that we will move on to look at risk-coping mechanisms, both across people and across time. We will begin with risk sharing agreements across people, both with and then without commitment. After that we will look at savings and credit which are used to smooth risk across time.

We will continue on to social networks. We will study how networks are used to share risk, find jobs, access credit, and learn about new technologies. In terms of technology adoption, we will study both the more traditional literature on technology adoption without networks and the newer literature which incorporates social networks.