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1、AdvancedEconometricsIEconomics245ACourseGoals:Toprovidetraininginfrontiereconometricmethods,andtheapplicationofthesemethods,attheintersectionofcomputerscience,economics,environmentalscience,geographyandstatistics.CourseStructure:Meetings:MF12:30-1:45inNort
2、hHall2113CourseBegins:MondaySeptember30CourseConcludes:FridayDecember6ResearchTopicPaperDue:FridayDecember6Requirements:JournalArticlePresentations(40%):Youwillbeaskedtoreportonjournalarticles•Yourreportshouldstatethemaingoalsofthepaper,summarizehowthegoal
3、sareachieved,offeracritiqueandproposeextensions.Youwillpresenteachreportinanassigned30minuteclassslotandturninawrittenreport(essentiallyasummaryandcritique)of5pages,dueoneweekafteryourpresentation.ResearchTopicPresentations(60%):Youwillbeaskedtotakechargeo
4、faresearchtopic.Indoingso,youwillreadanumberofpapersonthetopicandpreparea15pagepaper.Inadditiontoasynthesisofcurrentknowledge,yourpapershouldproposeanddiscussresearchquestionsthatadvancetopicknowledge.Youwillpresentyourpaperinanassignedclassslotof40minutes
5、(reducedfrom75minutesduetoincreasedenrollment).YourpaperisduebynoononFridayofthelastweekofclass.Readings:Asuitablelibraryforbackgroundreadingonthetopicsincludes,inadditiontothetextsbyHayashiandRuud:J.AngristandJ.Pishcke,MostlyHarmlessEconometrics.Princeton
6、,2009.J.Wooldridge,EconometricAnalysisofCrossSectionandPanelData.MIT,2002.Accesstoarticles:Mostarticlesareavailablethroughlibrary.Toaccessreadingsthroughthislinkwhenawayfromcampus,refertoconfiguretoconfigureyourcomputer.Articlesnot(yet)publishedinjournalsi
7、ndexedbythelibraryareaccessibledirectlyfromthissyllabusviaauthorlinks.Area1:CredibleInferenceinLinearModelsTopic1-1CredibleInferenceLaLondc,R.1986"EvaluatingtheEconometricEvaluationsofTrainingProgramswithExperimentalData"AmericanEconomicReview76,604-620.Ho
8、lland,P.1991"StatisticsandCausalInference^JournaloftheAmericanStatisticalAssociation81,945-960.Freedman,D.1991"StatisticalModelsandShoeLeather^SociologicalMethodology21,291-313・Ashenfeltei;O・andA.Kruger1994"E