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Recent Advances in Applied Micro-Econometrics for Causal Inference (ECO-AD-APPMTCCAU)

ECO-AD-APPMTCCAU


Department ECO
Course category ECO Advanced courses
Course type Course
Academic year 2023-2024
Term BLOCK 4
Credits .5 (EUI Economics Department)
Professors
Contact Simonsen, Sarah
Sessions

15/04/2024 9:00-11:00 @ Seminar Room B, Villa la Fonte

24/04/2024 13:30-15:30 @ Seminar Room B, Villa la Fonte

26/04/2024 15:30-17:30 @ Seminar Room B, Villa la Fonte

03/05/2024 13:30-15:30 @ Seminar Room B, Villa la Fonte

08/05/2024 13:30-15:30 @ Seminar Room B, Villa la Fonte

Purpose

A 10-hour topics course on Recent advances in Difference-in-Differences and Two-Way Fixed Effects models with heterogeneous treatment effects. 

Description

For two very good recent surveys see de Chaisemartin and D'Haultfoeuille (2022b) and (more accessible) Roth et al. (2023). For a nice discussion on identification assumptions in DD in general see Kahn-Lang and Lang (2020). Goodman-Bacon (2021) (decomposition); Sun and Abraham (2021), Callaway and Sant'Anna (2021), de Chaisemartin and D'Haultfoeuille (2022a) (Dynamic TE in event studies with het-erogeneity; treatment switching on and off (de Chaisemartin and D'Haultfoeuille 2020); pre-trends (Rambachan and Roth 2023, Roth 2022). TWFE redux (Wooldridge 2021).
TWFE and Synthetic controls combined (Arkhangelsky et al. 2021).

No exercise classes.

Teaching material

• Selected journal articles and lecture notes provided by the instructor.

Evaluation

There will be a problem set and a take-home exam.

See syllabus

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