EOSE09 - Economy and Society: Regional Development and Growth

This site holds the Stata labs and one lecture for the course EOSE09 - Economy and Society: Regional Development and Growth, offered at Lund University in Sweden.

Labs

Stata Lab 2: Mapping Growth - Across Space and Time

In this lab we will look at comparing maps across time, dealing with breaks, experimenting with colours, loops, and labels.

Vinzent Ostermeyer, adapted Jonathan Jayes updated by Nico Meffe

Stata Lab 1: Exercises

📈 Stata is a powerful software for data analysis and visualization. This exercise set aims to showcase the capabilities of Stata in creating informative graphics 📊. We…

Stata Lab 1: Mapping Growth - Basic Maps

🗺️ One goal of this course is to teach students how to identify a good map – one which is clear, informative and attractive – and familiarise students with the commands…

Vinzent Ostermeyer, adapted Jonathan Jayes edited by Nico Meffe

Stata Lab 2: Exercises

Set your working directory and read in the data

Stata Lab Hints: Basic Graphs

For your projects, you can use any kind of plots in addition to the maps we have learned to draw in the first lab.

Sigma-Convergence

I received a request to calculate and plot sigma-convergence for Sweden using Stata.

Lectures

Data visualization

Get you excited about storytelling with data

Resources

Resources

🔥 Welcome to our page of resources for learning Stata, the powerful econometrics software used by researchers and analysts in many fields. 📚 Here you will find a variety…

Additional Data: Eurostat

In addition to the database that we have used so far, we can introduce more data from Eurostat.

How to install Stata on your personal computers

This is a guide for downloading and installing Stata on your personal computer.

Lab 1: Slides on Lab Paper

Here is a link to the slides that we spoke through in the lab session today, detailing what is expected for the lab paper.

Beta-convergence

In your lectures you have seen that within a country, the poorer regions tend to grow faster than the richer regions. This is known as beta-convergence, or sometimes the…

Additional Data: DOSE

The data that you should use in your project is an amazing compilation of sub-national economic data all the way from 1900 to 2015. It covers all of Europe.

By request: dotted lines to indicate a region of interest

I have been asked to show how we can add a dotted line to a map to indicate a particular region of interest.