diff --git a/lectures/ols.md b/lectures/ols.md index fbd239f5e..b11cdf09f 100644 --- a/lectures/ols.md +++ b/lectures/ols.md @@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ Along the way, we'll discuss a variety of topics, including As an example, we will replicate results from Acemoglu, Johnson and Robinson's seminal paper {cite}`Acemoglu2001`. -* You can download a copy [here](https://web.archive.org/web/20220901051300/http://economics.mit.edu/files/4123). +* You can download a copy [here](https://economics.mit.edu/research/publications/colonial-origins-comparative-development-empirical-investigation). In the paper, the authors emphasize the importance of institutions in economic development. @@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ In this paper, - economic outcomes are proxied by log GDP per capita in 1995, adjusted for exchange rates. - institutional differences are proxied by an index of protection against expropriation on average over 1985-95, constructed by the [Political Risk Services Group](https://www.prsgroup.com/). -These variables and other data used in the paper are available for download on Daron Acemoglu's [webpage](https://web.archive.org/web/20220901063129/http://economics.mit.edu/faculty/acemoglu/data/ajr2001). +These variables and other data used in the paper are available for download on Daron Acemoglu's [webpage](https://economics.mit.edu/people/faculty/daron-acemoglu/data-archive). We will use pandas' `.read_stata()` function to read in data contained in the `.dta` files to dataframes