Learning Outcomes:
By the end of this course, students should be able to:
- develop credible identification strategies
- critically evaluate methods of causal inference
- apply methods of causal inference to answer economic questions
Indicative Module Content:
The course will cover the following:
Basics of causality
Directed acyclical graphs & potential outcomes
Difference-in-Difference estimation
Regression discontinuity
Synthetic controls
Limited dependent variables
Propensity score analysis (time permitting)