Course Schedule

All the class materials will be posted/updated here.

Date Topic Materials
Jan 8 Introduction
to Causality
course intro & syllabus | intro to causality| intro to R | practice data | practice problem set| script from class
Jan 15 Natural
Experiments
natural experiments| practice data| script from class
Jan 22 Measurement
Bias
measurement bias| practice data| script from class
Jan 29 Linear
Regression
linear regression| practice data| script from class
Feb 5 Regression
Discontinuity
discontinuity design| practice data 1 | practice data 2 | script from class
Feb 12 Research
Design
research design
Feb 19 Text
as Data
text analysis | practice data 1 | practice data 2 | script from class
Mar 4 Web-
Scraping
web-scraping | script from class
Mar 11 Big
Data
big data | practice data | data codebook
Mar 18 Network
Analysis
network analysis
Mar 25 Spatial
Analysis
spatial analysis, maps | regions data | animal data
April 1 Instrumental
Variables
instruments