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| Friday, July 30 | |
| 7:00am |
Causal Inference Using Synthetic Controls and the Regression Discontinuity Design
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| 9:00 am |
Welcome
James Poterba, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER |
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| 10:00 am |
Regression Discontinuity Designs: Practice and Topics
Matias Cattaneo, Princeton University (video) |
| 10:55 am |
Break
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| 11:05 am | |
| 12:00 pm |
Discussion and Q&A
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| 12:30 pm |
Adjourn
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Background Reading and References
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A. Abadie, "Using Synthetic Controls: Feasibility, Data Requirements, and Methodological Aspects," Journal of Economic Literature 2021 (paper)
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A. Abadie and M. Cattaneo, "Econometric Methods for Program Evaluation," Annual Review of Economics 2018 (paper)
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M. Cattaneo, N. Idrobo, R. Titiunik, A Practical Introduction to Regression Discontinuity Designs: Foundations 2019 (paper)
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Collection of software packages for analyzing and interpreting regression discontinuity designs (link)
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