[2026 Spring] POLS GA 1251 Quant II

Announcements

  • Syllabus (NB: some parts to be updated): [pdf]
  • No class on the following dates (check back for updates):
    • January 21
    • February 9
    • February 11
  • Midterm (in class): March 11
  • Final (in class): May 11
  • Teaching Assistant: Yinxuan Wang
  • Recitation information:

Lectures

Inferential foundations

  • 1 Introduction to causal effects and mechanisms [pdf]
  • 2 Causal identification analysis with potential outcomes and DAGs [pdf]
  • 3 Design based statistical inference I [pdf]
  • 4 Design based statistical inference II [pdf]
  • 5 Design based causal inference [pdf]

Conditioning-Based Identification Strategies

  • 6 Conditioning to identify causal effects [pdf]
  • 7 Matching and weighting [pdf]
  • 8 Double machine learning for treatment effects [pdf]

Instrumental Variables

  • 9 Instrumental variables basics [pdf]
  • 10 Instrumental variables extensions [pdf]

Partial Identification

  • 11 Partial identification bounds [pdf]

Homework