Erick Gong

Gong was a great and energetic professor who made every class interesting. The class was intriguing and was a great elective to take for the major requirements. I would definitely take another class with professor Gong.

The class is based on effort-based grading. So you can decide how much difficult you want to make it. You will get full credits for attempting homework/corrections. There is only one final exam but it is not mandatory (although you need to take the exam and get a 95 if you want an A in the course). As a part of the course, you are required to submit a proposal for empirical research and you need to get an A on that paper to get at least an A- in the course.

The class is based on effort-based grading. So you can decide how much difficult you want to make it. You will get full credits for attempting homework/corrections. There is only one final exam but it is not mandatory (although you need to take the exam and get a 95 if you want an A in the course). As a part of the course, you are re …Read more

I really enjoyed this course, and would highly recommend it if you are interested in more advanced econometrics. Evaluation was hybrid labor-based and quite fair. Lab assignments provided a great opportunity to work through the methodologies discussed in class.