Lectures

These are the assigned readings for Professor Pamela Jakiela’s undergraduate course Program Evaluation for International Development. This site is a work-in-progress: I will be posting new lectures over the course of the semester.

Part 0. Introduction

Module 1: Why Evaluate?

There is no video lecture for Module 1. I used the slides below for class discussion.

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Part I. Identification Strategies

Module 8: Treatment-on-the-Treated

There is no video lecture for Module 8. I used the slides below for class discussion.

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Module 9: Regression Discontinuity (RD I)

Module 10: RD as IV (RD II)

Part II. Program Evaluation in Practice

Module 11: Power Calculations

Module 12: Random Assignment in Practice

Module 13: Compliance and Attrition

Module 14: Survey Design

Module 15: Adventures in Data Collection

Part III. Galaxy Brain Topics

Module 16: Pre-Analysis Plans

Module 17: The Replication Crisis

Module 18: Criticisms of RCTs

Module 19: Meta-Analysis

Lectures

Part 0. Introduction

Module 1: Why Evaluate?

Part I. Identification Strategies

Module 2: Selection Bias and the Experimental Ideal

Module 3: False Counterfactuals

Module 4: Difference-in-Differences (DD I)

Module 5: Diff-in-Diff in a Regression Framework (DD II)

Module 6: Diff-in-Diff in Panel Data (DD III)

Module 7: Two-Way Fixed Effects (DD IV)

Module 8: Treatment-on-the-Treated

Part II. Program Evaluation in Practice

Part III. Galaxy Brain Topics