Rasmusen's La Jolla Institute Page

Rasmusen's La Jolla Institute Page, 1 February 2006

This page is for links relevant to the March 2003 GM Law and Econ Institute. It also may be useful for people wanting a nontechnical introduction to some topics in statistics and regression .

Links

Java applets on statistics from Rice University
Ramseyer and Rasmusen, Measuring Judicial Independence: The Political Economy of Judging in Japan, 2003, University of Chicago Press.
George Mason Law & Economics Center
Rasmusen's data source page.
Overheads:
- A few powerpoint slides on regression.
- Slides on Japanese judges in MS-word.
Instructions on how to use Excel for regressions.
Data:
- Made-up data on a law firm's associates' salaries in Excel and plain ascii, comma-separated
- Real data on murder and other social indicators in Excel and plain ascii, comma-separated
- Real data on various large companies in Excel and plain ascii, comma-separated. We didn't use this data at all, but it might be fun to play around with. You'll have to guess what the variable definitions are, though.

Social capital:

"The Idea of Social Capital," 34pp., in ascii-latex and pdf.
Social capital presentation overheads (which I ended up not having time to use):
- Hour 1 powerpoint
- Hour 1 pdf for game theory
- Hour 2 powerpoint
- Hour 3 powerpoint
http-- www.worldbank.org-poverty-scapital-library-edwards.pdf
http-- www.knuten.liu.se-~bjoch509-works-burke-reflections-reflections.html
Professor Edward Glaeser's Papers on the Web
TAP Vol 4, Iss. 13. The Prosperous Community. Robert D. Putnam.
TAP Vol 7, Iss. 24. The Strange Disappearance of Civic America. Robert D. Putnam.
Tocqueville, Democracy in America TOC
Murray, The Underclass Revisited
World Value Survey, Introduction
Bowling Alone, by Robert Putnam

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