因果推论ECON6074

课程内容：

This course introduces students to the challenges of interpreting observational data, and to different approaches designed to overcome these challenges. Drawing on examples from different areas in economics, the course provides an overview of research designs that aim at extracting credible causal relationships, such as difference-in-differences, matching estimators, instrumental variables, regression discontinuity, audit studies, natural experiments, and randomized control experiments. Students will be given hands-on experience with these research designs, and will learn their theoretical underpinning as well as their limitations.

本课程将向学生介绍解释观测数据的挑战，以及克服这些挑战的不同方法。课程利用经济学不同领域的例子，概述了旨在提取可信因果关系的研究设计，如差异中的差异、匹配估计量、工具变量、回归不连续性、审计研究、自然实验和随机控制实验。学生将获得这些研究设计的实践经验，并将学习这些研究的理论基础以及局限性。