Quantitative Research Methods III

Advanced Quantitative Research Methods is the third course in the methods sequence for graduate students in political science and an intermediate-level course in statistics and applied econometrics for graduate students in political science and public policy. Topics will include causal inference, difference-in-differences designs, instrumental variable approaches, regression discontinuity designs and hierarchical models. The course will be applied, focused on grasping the use of these methods in practice and facing practical data limitation challenges. Special focus will be given to understanding the most recent advances in the literature on each of the strategies studied. I expect that most of you have already taken POLS2580 and POLS2590, and that all of you are familiar with core statistical and econometric concepts. Our sessions will be divided between lectures, group work and data analysis in Stata and/or R.