[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
• Midterm: March 8 in class.
• Final: May 9-16 (exam week), take-home.

Lecture slides

Causal and Statistical Inference Foundations

• 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]

Canonical Observational Designs

• 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]
• 12 did with single event [pdf]
• 13 did with multiple events [pdf] [R notebook pdf]
• 14 synthetic control with 1 treated unit [pdf]
• 15 panel imputation and generalized synthetic control [pdf]
• 16 regression discontinuity [pdf]
• 17 regression discontinuity extensions [pdf]

Randomized Experiments

• 18 basics of experimental design and analysis [pdf]
• 19 complex experimental designs and design effects [pdf]

Beyond Average Treatment Effects

• 20 mediation effects [pdf]
• 21 moderation and heterogeneous treatment effects [pdf]
• 22 distributional effects (to be covered in recitation) [pdf]
• 23 interference and spillover effects [pdf]
• 24 multiple outcomes and multiple comparisons [pdf]
• 25 missing data [pdf]

Homework

• Homework 1 (due before class Feb 14): [assignment pdf] [pop.dta]
• Homework 2 (due before class Mar 7): [assignment pdf] [replication materials]
• Homework 3 (due before class Apr 13): [assignment pdf] [replication materials]
• Homework 4 (due before class Apr 27): [assignment] [paper] [replication materials]