Regression discontiunity II & Instrumental variables I

Readings due before class on Monday, November 11, 2019

Required

Regression discontinuity

• Review the readings from last week
• Other readings TBA

Instrumental variables

• Chapter 5 in Impact Evaluation in PracticePaul J. Gertler et al., Impact Evaluation in Practice, 2nd ed. (Inter-American Development Bank; World Bank, 2016), https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/25030.
  
  
• Chapter 3 in Mastering ’MetricsJoshua D. Angrist and Jörn-Steffen Pischke, Mastering ’Metrics: The Path from Cause to Effect (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2015).
  
  
• “Differences-in-differences” in Causal Inference: The MixtapeScott Cunningham, Causal Inference: The Mixtape, 2018, https://www.scunning.com/mixtape.html.