ECON 626: Empirical Microeconomics, University of Maryland, Fall 2016
| Instructors: | Pamela Jakiela [Email | Webpage] ; Owen Ozier [Email | Webpage] | |
| TA: | Thomas Hegland [Email | Webpage] | |
| Syllabus: | ECON-626 Syllabus (pdf) | |
| TA office hours: | Every Monday, 3:30-5:30PM, 3115M Tydings Hall | |
| Stata Review: | TBD | |
| Other exam review: | TBD | |
| Midterm | Friday Oct 21st, IN CLASS | |
| Final | Friday Dec 9th, IN CLASS |
Lectures
| Lecture 1 - Fri Sep 2 | Rubin Causal Model, Experimental Ideal |
| Lecture 1 Slides [printable handout format] [presentation format] | |
| Lecture 2 - Fri Sep 9 | Regression, Data Generating Processes |
| Lecture 2 Slides [printable handout format] [presentation format] | |
| Lecture 3 - Fri Sep 16 | Difference-in-Differences |
| Lecture 3 Slides [printable handout format] [presentation format] | |
| Lecture 4 - Fri Sep 23 | Instrumental Variables |
| Lecture 4 Slides [printable handout format] [presentation format] | |
| Lecture 5 - Fri Sep 30 | Regression Discontinuity |
| Lecture 5 Slides [printable handout format] [presentation format] | |
| Lecture 6 - Fri Oct 7 | Selection on Observables |
| Lecture 6 Slides [printable handout format] [presentation format] | |
| Lecture 7 - Fri Oct 14 | Power and Clustering |
| Lecture 7 Slides [printable handout format] [presentation format] | |
| Midterm exam - Fri Oct 21 | |
| Lecture 8 - Fri Oct 28 | Randomization in Practice: Baseline, Stratification, Balance |
| Lecture 8 Slides [printable handout format] [presentation format] | |
| Lecture 9 - Fri Nov 4 | Randomization Inference, Wild Cluster Bootstrap |
| Lecture 9 Slides [printable handout format] [presentation format] | |
| Lecture 10 - Fri Nov 11 | Attrition, Lee Bounds, Manski Bounds |
| Lecture 10 Slides [printable handout format] [presentation format] | |
| Lecture 11 - Fri Nov 18 | Censoring, Maximum Likelihood, Stata and MATLAB |
| Lecture 11 Slides [printable handout format] [presentation format] | |
| Thanksgiving - no class - Fri Nov 25 | |
| Lecture 12 - Fri Dec 2 | Logit, Mixed Logit |
| Lecture 12 Slides [printable handout format] [presentation format] | |
| Final exam - Fri Dec 9 |
Problem sets
| Problem Set 1 | Problem Set 1 questions |
MalariaData2.dta PS1exampleFminunc.m PS1discreteOutcomeTwovar.csv nllLogit.m PS1stataequivalent.do |
| Problem Set 2 | Problem Set 2 questions | |
| Problem Set 3 | Problem Set 3 questions |
PS3-rd-manipulation-questions.do |
| Problem Set 4 | Problem Set 4 questions | |
| Problem Set 5 | Problem Set 5 questions |
CohenDupasSchanerT3-for626.dta |
| Problem Set 6 | Problem Set 6 questions |
Supplementary material
| Ronald Fisher's 1935 Design of Experiments (1971 reprint), chapters 1 and 2 (discussed in Lecture 1) |
| Supplementary "discussion" of instrumental variables (and economics graduate work more broadly) (discussed in Lecture 4) |
| Ozier (2015) paper on secondary schooling in Kenya (discussed in Lecture 5) |
| Evans (2013) "Regression Discontinuity Porn" (relevant to Lecture 5) |
| Evans and Popova (2016) "What Really Works to Improve Learning in Developing Countries? An Analysis of Divergent Findings in Systematic Reviews" (relevant to Lecture 8) |
| Cochrane Handbook (relevant to Lecture 8) |
| Jesse Shapiro on how to present applied micro work (relevant more broadly) |
| Blog post on statistical refinements to pre-analysis plans (Anderson and Magruder, Fafchamps and Labonne) (bonus track) |