Analysis of Natural Experiments

4.0 credits · Graduate

This course, Analysis of Natural Experiments, will cover topics in the study of observational causal inference. We will focus on quantitative methods for analyzing time-series cross-sectional (?panel?) data to study the effects of political shocks, policy rollouts, institutional changes, and more. Methods studied will include difference-in-differences, event study, and regression discontinuity designs. (GOVT-AM)