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Announcements and Resources
- Syllabus (always under construction)
- Cyrus office hours sign-up
- No class on the following dates (check back for updates):
- Tue, Feb 18.
- Wed, Feb 26.
- Midterm (in class): Wed March 19
- Final (take home): Wed May 7-Wed May 14 (Final exam period).
- Sign-up sheet: (to be posted)
- Sylvan’s recitations: Thu 10am-12pm Rm 212
Lecture Slides
Causal Identification and Statistical Inference Foundations
- 1 introduction to causal effects and mechanisms [pdf]
- 2 a primer on causal identification analysis with potential outcomes and DAGs [pdf]
- 3 a primer on design-based statistical inference for descriptive quantities I [pdf]
- 4 design-based statistical inference for descriptive quantities II [pdf]
- 5 design-based statistical inference for causal quantities [pdf]
Observational Identification Strategies
- 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 difference in differences for a single event [pdf]
- 13 difference in differences for multiple events [pdf] [simulation PDF]
- 14 synthetic control for one treated unit [pdf]
- 15 generalized panel imputation methods [pdf]
- 16 regression discontinuity introduction [pdf]
Homework Assignments
