wir888 - Applied Econometrics Using GIS Techniques

Department of Business Administration, Economics and Law (Business Administration and Business Education)		6 KP
Module components	Semester courses Wintersemester 2021/2022	Examination
Lecture	2.02.845 - Applied Econometrics Using GIS Techniques (Course) Prof. Dr. Erkan Gören Wednesday: 14:15 - 15:45, weekly (from 20/10/21)
Seminar	2.02.846 - Applied Econometrics Using GIS Techniques (Exercise) Prof. Dr. Erkan Gören Thursday: 14:15 - 15:45, weekly (from 21/10/21)
Hinweise zum Modul
Prerequisites None Prüfungszeiten Am Ende der Vorlesungszeit Module examination Mündliche Prüfung oder Klausur oder Referat oder Projektbericht Skills to be acquired in this module This course provides an introduction to some fundamental geo-processing operations using ArcGIS that are most relevant for economics research. The broad term GIS encompasses a set of tools (both software and hardware) to collect, store, visualize and analyze spatial data from the real world. GIS techniques allow economists to use data on geography and weather as sources of exogenous variation for estimating the causal impact of a wide range of treatments (e.g., infrastructure, mass media, slave trade, land suitability for agriculture, and terrain ruggedness). Satellite images from the earth's surface, which can be analyzed with geo-processing tools in GIS, allow economists to construct geo-spatial indicators (e.g., temporal changes in the intensity of night-time light and patterns of deforestation) that more closely reflect the local actors and underlying mechanisms of interest.