Course Schedule

All the class materials will be posted/updated here.

Date Topic Materials
Sep 12 Introduction
to Causality
course intro & syllabus | intro to causality| intro to R | practice data
Sep 19 Natural
Experiments
natural experiments| practice data
Sep 26 Measurement
Bias
measurement bias| practice data
Oct 3 Linear
Regression
linear regression| practice data
Oct 17 Regression
Discontinuity
discontinuity design| practice data 1 | practice data 2
Oct 24 Text
as Data
text analysis | practice data 1 | practice data 2
Oct 31 Web-
Scraping
web-scraping
Nov 14 Big
Data
big data | practice data | data codebook
Nov 21 Network
Analysis
network analysis
Nov 28 Spatial
Analysis
spatial analysis, maps
Dec 5 Instrumental
Variables
instruments