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I've been sticking with SAS to improve my students' employability, but if R is gaining popularity in the corporate world I would much rather use it. That being said, I much prefer R & Stata for my own use and would rather teach the course in R.

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I have been using SAS to teach undergrad econometrics - SAS on Demand is free for students, and being cloud-based, it's platform-independent. Reading this should be enough to illustrate that extensive focus on the programming aspects of R is not needed to use it. Incidentally, I struggled far more with learning Stata than with learning R due to the wealth of online resources that could answer any doubts I had about R.Įdit: is a model of teaching metrics with R. It's similar to how Stata has some sophistication as a language, but little of that sophistication actually needs to be covered to use Stata in a class. R can be covered without going into its sophistication as a programming language, leaving the focus squarely on the material. That is the sum total of his time spent teaching R - it has hardly hijacked the class. While teaching the material, he appends notes on the requisite commands to do certain tasks in R. My professor attached a brief R tutorial for those with no exposure to it at the beginning of the class.

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The concern about "R is a programming language, this class is not about teaching them how to program" is generally off the mark. I'm an undergraduate who's benefited tremendously from learning R. I also really just think that, except for the students looking to go into academia, the overall benefit of learning STATA or EViews is close to zero. TL DR: I think the marginal benefit for students of learning some R is much higher than the marginal benefit of being able to teach a little more econometrics while using STATA or EViews. Plus, since R can be downloaded for free, they may even choose to learn more about R prior to entering the job market. It's also just closer to a more "traditional" programming language like Python, so it would be easier for them to pick up Python after learning R than after learning STATA. While you could argue that it's better to use STATA or EViews for an Econometrics class since they're easier to learn and you can therefore focus more on teaching then econometrics rather than programming, I think it makes the major more valuable overall to students if you teach them some R due to the fact that R is somewhat common in industry (unlike STATA or EViews). Since most undergraduate Economics majors will not go into academia, I definitely think teaching them R is the way to go. One I can't find now but will post if I can find it and another here: which doesn't even have EViews as having enough share to be considered as a choice. I will say there a few blogs on the topic of usage and popularity of statistical software/languages. I have never used it beyond that course and none of my friends and colleagues in the business world use it (or probably have even heard of it). That being said, may be EViews is a good choice for this. It is in OUR best interest to not have unemployed econ majors.

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And I also agree the aim of an econometric course should be econometrics.īUT if you are requiring them to learn/use a new software already you have an obligation to choose a software that will be most beneficial to the students in their employment search, considering access, learning costs, financial costs. I definitely agree most students don't use econometrics in their jobs.

That's why I suggest not overthinking it. The real point is that once you learn one language, and understand the logic of what you are trying to do, the skills are transferable. I have spent too much time watching people create complex and undecipherable spreadsheets.

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I tested STATA and thought that Eviews was a better time series vehicle, but maybe that's me. These may not be popular in academia but are widely used in business. Also, you need it if you want to do traditional Klein-style models. I now use Eviews in a business context and it is perfectly satisfactory. I'm late in my career as a business economist (with a Ph.D.) and have had to learn the following languages:īasic/Fortran (not for econometrics but a great building block)ĪPL (used a European econometrics package from the 1970s called EPL written in this)ĪREMOS (a proprietary package from Wharton Econometric Forecasting Associates)