Required Readings

Reading questions are posted on gradescope and due on Mondays by 11 PM.

February 9, 11, 13: Selection Bias

• Mastering Metrics: Chapter 1
• J-PAL: A Balancing Act

Many of you already read the Mastering Metrics chapter in ECON 503 or ECON 255, so it should be a quick (re)read.

February 16, 18, 20: Regression Revisited

• Notes on Regression
• J-PAL: Building Stable Livelihoods for the Ultra-Poor

February 23, 25, 27: 2x2 Difference-in-Differences

• Minimum Wages and Employment: A Case Study of the Fast-Food Industry in New Jersey and Pennsylvania

March 2, 4, 6: Diff-in-Diff in a Regression Framework

• Does a ban on informal health providers save lives? Evidence from Malawi

March 9, 11, 13: Two-Way Fixed Effects

• Simple Diagnostics for Two-Way Fixed Effects

April 6, 8, 10: Treatment-on-the-Treated

• Impact Evaluation in Practice, second edition: Chapter 5

April 13, 15, 17: Instrumental Variables

• Preprimary Education and Early Childhood Development: Evidence from Government Schools in Rural Kenya

April 20, 22, 24: Regression Discontinuity

• Islamic Rule and the Empowerment of the Poor and Pious

April 27: Randomization in Practice

• Running Randomized Evaluations: Chapter 4

April 29: Power Calculations

• Running Randomized Evaluations: Chapter 6

May 4: Cluster-Randomized Trials

• Running Randomized Evaluations: Chapter 6

May 6: Choosing Covariates

• Using PDS Lasso to Select Controls in Field Experiments