Research Fieldwork Analysis

3 Credits · Level: Graduate, Undergraduate

This course aims to provide the fundamentals of conducting experimental research in practice. Aiming to complement training in econometrics and statistical inference, this course will take students through all the steps of conducting a successful field experiment, from research and survey design to data collection and analysis. Students will learn effective collaboration and computer hygiene using Git and GitHub, advanced data manipulation, analysis, visualization and programming with Stata, and advanced survey coding and deployment with SurveyCTO. This class is highly applied and is meant to prepare students for roles in either international research institutions or monitoring and evaluation firms. Students will have the opportunity to develop a full research project from beginning to end and acquire very actionable skills through hands-on assignments each week. They will learn from the real-life experience of three experienced gui2de researchers. No prior programming experience is required or assumed.