Document Type
Article
Publication Date
6-3-2019
Publication Title
The Journal of Economic Education
Abstract
The increasing importance of empirical analysis in economics highlights the need for efficient ways to bring these skills to the classroom. R Markdown is a new technology that provides a solution by integrating writing, statistical work and computation into a single document. R Markdown benefits students and instructors by streamlining teaching, research, and collaboration. We report on our use of R Markdown in undergraduate teaching, including core courses, electives, and senior theses. We discuss the costs and benefits of adoption, and explain the advantages of R Markdown in teaching reproducibility of empirical work, avoiding time-consuming and error-prone ‘cut and paste,’ and facilitating a one-stop solution for importing, cleaning, manipulating, visualizing and communicating with data.
Keywords
statistics teaching, econometrics teaching, reproducibility, data
Volume
50
Issue
3
First Page
242
Last Page
257
DOI
10.1080/00220485.2019.1618765
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Rights
Licensed to Smith College and distributed CC-BY under the Smith College Faculty Open Access Policy.
Recommended Citation
Dvorak, Tomas; Halliday, Simon; O'Hara, Michael; and Swoboda, Aaron, "Efficient Empiricism: Streamlining Teaching, Research, and Learning in Empirical Courses" (2019). Economics: Faculty Publications, Smith College, Northampton, MA.
https://scholarworks.smith.edu/eco_facpubs/11
Comments
Peer reviewed accepted manuscript.
JEL CODES: A22, B4, C8