PAM 6091 - Empirical Strategies for Policy Research II

(crosslisted) ECON 6591

Spring. 3 credits. Letter grades only.

Prerequisite: PAM 6090.

Z. Pei.

Focuses on empirical strategies to identify the causal effects of public policies and programs. The course uses problem sets based on real-world examples and data to examine techniques for analyzing nonexperimental data including regression discontinuity methods and control function approaches. The course aids students in both learning to implement a variety of statistical tools using large data sets, and in learning to select which tools are best suited to a given research project.