Applied Causal Inference in Education Research

Harvard HGSE

The focus of this seminar is applied econometric methods for answering causal questions. The course is organized around several common strategies in applied causal inference: experiments, difference-in-differences, event studies, regression discontinuity, instrumental variables, conditional independence arguments, etc. The primary goal of the course is to develop skills for producing academic papers with convincing causal claims. The convincingness of a causal claim depends on several inputs…