AK: Andreas Kotsadam
NJ: Niklas Jakobsson
Books:
Angrist and Pischke (2009) Mostly Harmless Econometrics. Princeton University Press, Princeton.
Lecture 1: Introduction, potential outcomes, and randomization. (AK)
Articles
@Duflo, Esther, Rachel Glennerster, and Michael Kremer. 2006. "Using Randomization in Development Economics Research: A Toolkit." BREAD Working Paper 136. (At least read pages 1-14 and 66-75)
@Miguel, E. et al. 2014. "Promoting Transparency in Social Science Research" Science, 343(6166), 30-31.
@Angrist, J. D., and A. B. Krueger (1999), "Empirical Strategies in Labor Economics". In O. Ashenfelter and D. Card (editors), Handbook of Labor Economics, 3A. North-Holland. 1277-1366
@Imbens, G. I. and J. M. Wooldridge (2009) "Recent Developments in the Econometrics of Program Evaluation", Journal of Economic Literature, 47(1): 5–86.
@Cameron, Colin and Pravin Trivedi (2010). Chapter 3
Lecture 2: Diff-in-diff and panel strategies. (NJ)
The relevant chapters in Angrist and Pischke 2009 and 2014
@Cameron, Colin and Pravin Trivedi (2010). Chapters 8 and 9.
Lecture 3: Instrumental variables. (NJ)
The relevant chapters in Angrist and Pischke 2009
@Cameron, Colin and Pravin Trivedi (2010). Chapter 6
Lecture 4: Peer effects. (AK)
Required reading before class:
@Henning Finseraas, Åshild A. Johnsen, Andreas Kotsadam and Gaute Torsvik (2016) Exposure to female colleagues breaks the glass ceiling-Evidence from a combined vignette and field experiment. European Economic Review.
@Sacerdote, Bruce. "Peer effects in education: How might they work, how big are they and how much do we know thus far?." Handbook of the Economics of Education 3 (2011): 249-277.
Lecture 5: Regression discontinuity. (NJ)
The relevant chapters in Angrist and Pischke 2009 and chapter 6 of Angrist and Pischke 2014
Home assignment: Write referee reports of the following two papers:
Paper number 1:
@Jensen, R., & Oster, E. (2009). The power of TV: Cable television and women's status in India. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1057-1094.
Paper number 2:
@Acharya, Avidit, Matthew Blackwell, and Maya Sen. In Press, 2016. “The Political Legacy of American Slavery.” Journal of Politics.
Lecture 6: Using ArcGIS for causal inference. (AK)
Or something else. Based on the interests of the students. No mandatory reading.
Lecture 7: The Synthetic Control Method. (NJ)
@Abadie, Diamond and Hainmueller (2010) Synthetic Control Methods for Comparative Case Studies: Estimating the Effect of California’s Tobacco Control Program, Journal of the American Statistical Association 105(490): 493-505.
@Abadie, Diamond and Hainmueller (2015) Comparative Politics and the Synthetic Control Method, American Journal of Political Science 59(2): 495-510.
Total number of pages: 892.