Course outline

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Monday, June 3rd: Identification, Falsification, and Conventional Methods

Tuesday, June 4th: Modern Continuity Based Methods

Wednesday, June 5th: Modern Local Randomization Based Methods

09:00 - 09:30

Registration

09:30 - 11:00

Potential outcomes framework, randomized experiments and RD designs. Estimands and identification. Extrapolation. Graphical presentation and falsification methods. Specification checks and validation methods.

11:00 - 11:30

Coffee-break

11:30 - 13:00

Conventional inference methods and robustness checks. Global vs. Local approximations. Local polynomial methods. Bandwidth Selection.

Local randomization methods.

13:00 - 14:00

Lunch

14:00 - 17:00

Lab sessions (Stata)

 

 

09:30 - 11:00

Recent developments for estimation and inference using local polynomial methods

11:00 - 11:30

Coffee-break

11:30 - 13:00

Recent developments for estimation and inference using local polynomial methods

13:00 - 14:00

Lunch

14:00 - 17:00

Lab sessions (Stata)

 

 

 

 

09:30 - 11:00

Recent developments for estimation and inference using local randomization methods.

11:00 - 11:30

Coffee-break

11:30 - 13:00

Recent developments for estimation and inference using local randomization methods.

13:00 - 14:00

Lunch

14:00 - 17:00

Lab sessions (Stata)

 

 

 

 

11:00 - 12:00

 

Extrapolating Treatment Effects in Multi-Cutoff Regression Discontinuity Designs

 

 

Thursday June 6th: Seminar - Room 0.04