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Yong Cai

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Raw average: 5.00/5 from 1 quality ratings. The adjusted rating blends this with the UW review average (3.66/5), weighted as 20 additional ratings. Smaller samples stay closer to that average. Each captured review is counted once in the prior; this does not correct who chooses to leave a review.

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ECON 709
Quality 5/5Difficulty 2/5
Very good! You can tell he's new; there were myriad typos in his lecture notes, and the homework problems were very easy. But those lecture notes were great nonetheless! Thorough, easy to follow, with numerous helpful example problems. Feel like I learned a lot from him.
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Classes with Yong Cai

ECON 705

Econometrics II

3 credits

ECONOMETRICS II covers econometric methods, theory, and applications including instrumental variables, GMM, panel data, limited dependent variables, time series, and vector autoregressions.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.60 GPA, 77.8% A/AB (n=72 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.61 GPA, 78.6% A/AB (n=42 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.

Yong CaiKohei Yata

historical GPA · grades

Fall 2022–Spring 2026
ECON 716

Econometric Methods

3 credits

ECONOMETRIC METHODS covers advanced econometric theory.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

Yong CaiKohei Yata

historical GPA · grades

Spring 2023–Spring 2026 · limited sample

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TermCourseTitle
Spring 2027ECON 705Econometrics II
Spring 2027ECON 716Econometric Methods
Fall 2026ECON 709Economic Statistics and Econometrics I
Fall 2026ECON 726Applications of Machine Learning in Economics

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