Lectures: Mondays, 2:00-4:30 pm, McClelland 401KK
Office Hours: Tuesdays, 1:30-3:00 pm, or by appt.
Course Description:
This is a Ph.D. level topics course in causal inference and program evaluation methodology. We will focus on using the potential outcomes approach as a general organizing principle, and examine identification and estimation of treatment effects under various types of assumptions. A key theme is to show that certain treatment effects are identified under weak distributional assumptions (nonparametric identification), and then examine a range of estimation methods that incorporate additional "smoothing" assumptions.
Syllabus (updated 1/30/05)
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