Practice tests and project material (summary/spreadsheet of all the codes for Econ 103 and 104; super helpful for 104!) are available, $30 for full package (negotiable - I'm flexible and nice dw). Email me at *************.

Boswell is pretty nice and extends project due dates if most of the class needs extra time for the group projects. Make sure for your groups, you choose responsible group partners and that you study well for the midterm. the midterm itself wasn't super difficult, but in my opinion, the environment was poorly planned out. She also records and livestreams lectures.

Professor Boswell is incredibly supportive and understanding of her students. Her lectures are always engaging, well-structured, and easy to follow. She’s also very organized and often goes out of her way to accommodate students and make their lives easier.

I previously took ECON 103 with Professor Boswell and really enjoyed it, so I enrolled in ECON 104 with her as well. Compared to ECON 103, ECON 104 is more conceptual and less math-focused, which made it more challenging for me personally. The group projects were also more time-consuming and complex than those in ECON 103.

While I didn’t enjoy the course content as much due to its conceptual nature, I still believe Professor Boswell is an excellent instructor and a fair grader. I highly recommend her as a professor or a mentor, just be aware that the course material itself may not be as engaging or fun.

Boswell is great at explaining the concepts; however, the course itself is poorly organized by the economics department. The material jumps around from correcting regression model assumption violations to QDV models, then to time series models, and back again to finishing the corrections for the regression assumptions. It also briefly touches on machine learning and panel data toward the end. While each of these topics is interesting on its own, trying to cover them all in just 10 weeks results in only a very basic understanding of the material. In contrast, Econ 103 was a much better learning experience, as it focused solely on least squares regression, covering both the derivation and the intuition behind it, along with practical applications. I would have preferred if this course had focused solely on completing the regression assumption corrections and gone more in-depth on time series and QDV models. Due to how crammed the course was, it didn’t provide enough depth to confidently apply any of the concepts. That said, Boswell remains an excellent instructor and continues to be my preferred choice for any economics course.

Professor Boswell is one of the most fair professors in the econ department. She gives you a list of the topics that will be covered on the exam unlike many others so you're not left guessing what to study. Her exams are tough but fair and projects make up 30% of your grade (everyone gets A's on them). She is very nice and willing to help students so definitely get to know her and attend her office hours!

Professor Boswell is great! I took her for both ECON 103 and 104 and found her to be a very fair professor. Her lecture slides and instruction are pretty straightforward. Grade breakdown: 30% projects (there are 3), 30% midterm (20 MCQ, 3 doubled sided cheat sheets), and 40% final (40 MCQ, 4 double sided cheat sheets). The assignments are all done in R, but you only need to know how to interpret R output during exams. I found the final to be difficult but reasonable and got a 70%. Overall, as long as you do well on the assignments and prepare good cheat sheets you’re good

If you took Boswell for 103 this class is defenitley a lot harder imo. As someone who got an A in 103, I died on the final. Theres 3 projects worth 10% each. Midterm is 30% and final is 40%. I'm not sure about my class, but I know the quarter before I took it there was a downcurve so watch out for that. You get cheat sheets for the midterm and final so make sure you put all the practice problems on there.

Boswell is one of the best professors I've had at UCLA. She truly cares about her students and is very helpful, clear, and understanding. There are 3 projects worth 15% each, 20% midterm, and 35% final. She provides all past midterms and finals since 2021 for studying and allows 3 pages front and back for a cheat sheet for the midterm and 4 for the final. The coding projects aren't very time consuming compared to other teachers and they are helpful for understanding the questions on the exams. Only need to know R for the projects. I recommend taking notes by either copying and pasting the slides beforehand and adding notes during the lecture or downloading the slides and writing notes on them. She records her lectures and does them on zoom so I would type the notes beforehand and listen to her explanations / read the transcript and add those separately to grasp the information more rather than taking notes at the same time she's lecturing (because she can go pretty fast). Definitely take this class with Boswell if you can!!! Also don't need the textbook.

Class is pretty tough if you're not good with stats, but workload was very light.

Amazing professor—if you’re taking Econ 104, take it with her. Despite doing horribly on tests (my average was 50% due to a difficult time), I managed to end the class with a C+ thanks to the projects. I strongly recommend her.

My review of other professors: https://www.reddit.com/r/ucla/comments/1gmshzu/review_of_econ_professors_as_a_transfer_student/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

This will be my first time rating a professor on Bruinwalk because Professor Boswell is definitely one of the professors in the Economics department I was compelled to leave a review on.

One of the things I really liked about this class is how intuitive she gives concepts in econometrics. Often times, econometrics does not make sense because professors tend to skip previous foundational concepts you need to understand it. In every slide, she tries her best to recall ECON 41 and ECON 103/103L concepts that students may have forgotten to make us understand the underlying process of the "why" on the concept she's describing. Why is this important? Well, this makes the exams much easier because even if you forgot something on your cheat sheet, when you can recall the underlying concept she described, you will most likely answer it correctly.

ECON 104 is a difficult course; but, it is not impossible if you take it with Professor Boswell. She makes herself available through office hours and by the end of each lecture, so take advantage of it. In terms of exams, there are ample concepts and definitions. However, most of them are application-based. To succeed, make sure to include all the hypothesis on your cheat sheet as she wants you to master the interpretation more than the underlying code because the code, tbh, is simple.

TLDR: Take ECON 104 with Professor Boswell, you will not regret it.