Detailed course description:

  • Introduction to causal inference, quick history
  • Potential outcomes, counterfactuals and basic definitions
  • Randomization
  • DAG notation
  • Propensity score matching, Nearest neighbor covariate matching
  • Instrumental variables, 2SLS estimation
  • Weak instruments, Just-Identified IV, Overidentification
  • Formula IVs
  • Weighting Estimators of the Local Average Treatment
  • Heterogenous treatment effects
  • Regression discontinuity identification
  • Optimal bandwidth selection, Robust confidence intervals,
  • Local Randomization RD analysis, Local Polynomial Order 
  • Quantile treatment effects in the RD
  • Window selection based on covariates
  • Spatial RD
  • Regression Discontinuity in Time
  • Difference-in-differences, Parallel Trends, Triple difference
  • DID with Covariates, Two-way Fixed Effects (TWFE)
  • Nonbinary response (Binary, Fractional, Nonnegative), ratio in ratios, ratio in odds-ratios
  • Differential timing, Bacon decomposition 
  • Group-time average treatment effects
  • Imputation Estimators, Mundlak Estimator, Fuzzy Difference-in-differences 
  • Synthetic control
  • Synthetic difference-in-differences
  • Causal Latent Variable Models

Practical classes are taught in R and Stata. Participants are asked to install the software before the course.

Schedule:

13.01.2025 - 16.01.2025 
15:00-21:30 GMT+1(Warsaw, Madrid, Berlin, Rome)
9:00-15:30 EST (Boston, New York, Washington)
24 hours contact hours