ECON 6591

ECON 6591

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2018-2019.

Focuses on empirical strategies to identify the causal effects of public policies and programs. The course uses problem sets based on real-world examples and data to examine techniques for analyzing nonexperimental data including regression discontinuity methods and control function approaches. The course aids students in both learning to implement a variety of statistical tools using large data sets, and in learning to select which tools are best suited to a given research project.

When Offered Spring.

Prerequisites/Corequisites Prerequisite: ECON 6590.

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Syllabi:
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: PAM 6091

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  8270 ECON 6591   LEC 001