[2023 Spring] POLS GA 1251 Quant II

Announcements and Resources

• Syllabus (still under development)
• Cyrus office hours
• No class on the following dates:
  • Thu Feb 2
  • Thu Feb 9
  • Tue April 11
• Midterm: March 8 in class.

Lecture slides

• 1 introduction [pdf]
• 2 identification analysis with potential outcomes and DAGs [pdf]
• 3 statistical inference for descriptive quantities 1 [pdf]
• 4 statistical inference for descriptive quantities 2 [pdf]
• 5 statistical inference for causal quantities [pdf]
• 6 conditioning to identify causal effects [pdf]
• 7 multiple regression [pdf]
• 8 matching and weighting [pdf]
• 9 instrumental variables basics [pdf]
• 10 instrumental variables extensions [pdf]
• 11 front door criterion [pdf]

Homework

• Homework 1 (due before class Feb 14): [assignment pdf] [pop.dta]
• Homework 2 (due before class Mar 7): [assignment pdf] [replication materials]