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Identical coursesEmpirical Evaluation of Economic Policy (B-KUL-D0N90A)
Cannot be taken as part of an examination contractAims
Upon completion of this course, the student should be able:
- to explain the concept of causality and to be familiar with the basic empirical tools for economic policy evaluation.
- to evaluate the ideas and empirical methods used in most current research papers that deal with the empirical evaluation of economic policies.
Previous knowledge
Students should have mastered the courses D0N62A Economics or S0A25A Economics, as well as D0O24A Introduction to Quantitative Methods for Business and Economics.
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Activities
3 ects. Empirical Evaluation of Economic Policy (B-KUL-D0N90a)
Content
Content:
1) Randomized trials
2) Regression
3) Instrumental variables
4) Regression discontinuity designs
5) Differences-in-differences
Course material
J.D. Angrist and J.-S. Pischke (2014), Mastering metrics: the path from cause to effect, Princeton University Press.
Format: more information
The course will consist of two parts: First, lectures on empirical methods of policy evaluation and second, a Stata tutorial that provides students with a basic knowledge of Stata.
Evaluation
Evaluation: Empirical Evaluation of Economic Policy (B-KUL-D2N90a)
Explanation
The result is calculated and communicated as a whole number on a scale of 20.