Home Page

Course Description

Course Outline

About Joshua Angrist

Application and Fees

Participants

Practical Information

Previous Editions

Sponsors

Contacts

6th Summer School—EEG, Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal

Economic Policies Research Unit—NIPE

Course outline

This course covers core econometric ideas and empirical modeling strategies.  The outline below is keyed to the Mostly Harmless Econometrics table of contents.  This book, available in early 2009, is required for the course. A detailed outline and the readings list can be found here

 

 

 

 

 

Questions About Questions and The Experimental Ideal

 

Regression

 

  Regression and the CEF; Review of large-sample theory

  Regression and Causality

  Regression and matching

 

Instrumental Variables

 

   SLS with constant effects; the Wald estimator, grouped data

   Two-Sample IV and related estimators

   Instrumental variables with heterogeneous potential outcomes

   Generalizing LATE

   IV details

 

Non-Standard Standard Error Issues

 

 

Outline

6th Summer School—EEG, Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal

Economic Policies Research Unit—NIPE