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MICROECONOMETRIC TREATMENT AND POLICY EVALUATION

Lecturer: Professor Martin Huber, PhD (University of Fribourg)
Date: August 30, 2016 – September 2, 2016 (August 30 to September 1: 9:00-12:00 pm and 13:00-17:00 / September 2: 9:00-12:00 pm)
Venue: Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH) – Member of the Leibniz Association, Kleine Maerkerstrasse 8, 06108 Halle (Saale), Germany, conference room (ground floor)
Registration: until July 31, 2016 via e-mail: ildiko.lajtos@wiwi.uni-halle.de

Announcement see pdf

Chapter 1: Identification and Estimation in Microeconometrics

  • Identifying assumptions and estimation principles

Chapter 2: The Evaluation of Treatment Effects Under Conditional Independence

  • Potential outcome framework and definition of treatment effects
  • Estimation based on regression, matching, weighting
  • Practical issues: covariate selection, common support, match quality, outcome attrition

Chapter 3: The Evaluation of Treatment Effects Based on Instrumental Variables

  • Instrumental variable assumptions and local treatment effects
  • Estimation based on regression, matching, weighting

Chapter 4: Assessing the Causal Mechanisms Underlying a Treatment Effect

  • Models for the analysis of causal mechanisms (direct and indirect effects)
  • Estimation of causal mechanisms based on regression, matching, weighting

3 PC labs based on the statistical software R.

The course is limited to 25 participants.