Doing Economics in Julia

Working through CORE Econ’s empirical projects, one at a time

Doing Economics is CORE Econ’s set of fourteen empirical projects, each built on a real dataset. It ships walk-throughs in Excel, R, Google Sheets, and Python. This is the Julia version. Each project page follows the book’s structure with the Julia code and a written answer. Results are checked against the book’s published solutions.

Projects

# Project
1 Measuring climate change
2 Collecting and analysing data from experiments
3 Measuring the effect of a sugar tax
4 Measuring wellbeing
5 Measuring inequality: Lorenz curves and Gini coefficients
6 Measuring management practices
7 Supply and demand
8 Measuring the non-monetary cost of unemployment
9 Credit-excluded households in a developing country
10 Characteristics of banking systems around the world
11 Measuring willingness to pay for climate change mitigation
12 Government policies and popularity: Hong Kong cash handout
13 Extra 1: Female labour supply and the macroeconomy
14 Extra 2: The politics of carbon taxation

Also here

  • R → Julia — what each R idiom from the walk-throughs becomes in Julia.
  • Technical reference — the statistical measures and the conventions used here.