Materials on Ilias (UoC e-learning platform)
Here you’ll find slides and other class materials:
https://www.ilias.uni-koeln.de/ilias/goto_uk_crs_2459216.html
Q&A on Piazza
Piazza is an online platform to facilitate class discussion. Please use it to post any query regarding class content and organization, including but not limited to questions about homework assignments. The system is highly catered to getting you help fast and efficiently from your classmates and me. Use email only for personal matters such as making an office hour appointment or reporting an illness. If you have any problems or feedback for the developers, email team@piazza.com.
Find our class page at:
https://piazza.com/uni-koeln.de/spring2018/specialisationmodulei/home
Piazza is also available cost free as an app for Android and iOS.
National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79)
For practical exercises and class projects, we’ll use data from the NLSY79, a repeated survey of men and women in the United States born between 1957 and 1964, along with data from the children born to NLSY79 women.
To access these data, use the NLS Investigator (after registration):
https://www.nlsinfo.org/investigator/pages/login.jsp
Following the link below you’ll find a database collecting publications that have used data from Children of the NLSY79. You can search this database using keywords that reflect your specific research interest.
https://www.nlsinfo.org/bibliography/search/cohort+keyword/chrt=Children+of+the+NLSY79
Open Science Framework (OSF)
OSF is an open source software project for collaboration in scientific research. We’ll use it to regularly back up our code files and to submit completed homework assignments.
To use OSF, please create an account at https://osf.io and then fork the project template at https://osf.io/nx7q8/.
Other resources
Birth cohorts worldwide:
http://www.birthcohorts.net/
Developing a Child Cohort Research Strategy for Europe:
http://www.chicosproject.eu/
Project TIER - Teaching Integrity in Empirical Research:
http://www.projecttier.org/