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Lecture Notes
- Week 01. Introduction - Why development economics?
- Week 02. Basics of impact evaluation
- Week 03. Stata Intro [pdf]
- Week 04. Stata Continued [pdf]
- Week 05. Diff-in-Diff & Clustering [pdf]
- Week 06. Standard Errors
- Week 07. Instrumental Variables [pdf]
- Week 08. Attrition
- Week 09. Duflo's JMP
- Week 10. Propensity Score Matching [pdf]
- Week 11. PSM continued
- Week 12. Interactions & Centering [pdf]
- Week 13. Programming Stata
- Week 14. Standard Errors Revisited [pdf]
- Week 15. Review [pdf]
- Week 16. Review [pdf]
Readings
- Fixed Effects Models [pdf]
- Interpreting Log Coefficients [pdf]
- Intro to Stata [pdf]
- Common Stata Commands [pdf]
- Guide to Stata [pdf]
Links and Stata .do files
- Stata tutorial (.do file) [pdf]
- Week 7 .do file [pdf]
- Week 12 .do file [pdf]
- Week 13 .do file [pdf]
- Week 14 .do file [pdf]
- Instrumental variables .do file [pdf]
Background Readings
- Mobile Divides: Gender, Socioeconomic Status, and Mobile Phone Use in Rwanda [pdf]
- A Method for Estimating the Relationship Between Phone Use and Wealth [pdf]
- Who's Calling? Demographics of Mobile Phone Use in Rwanda [pdf]
- Special report: Telecoms in emerging markets [pdf]
- Information, Efficiency, and Welfare in Agricultural Markets [pdf]
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Students (2010): Gakuba, Steven; Gasangwa, Gilbert; Gasirikare, Steven; Giramahoro, Prudence; Habagusenga, Gilbert; Habumugisha, Patrick; Kamaziga, Delphine; Kamugisha, Bonaventure; Mbabazi, Justine; Mbyirukira, Nkoronko Diane; Munyaneza, Thomas; Byukusenge, Eric; Uwera, Laila; Ngaboyimanzi, Khadaffi; Ruvuta, Jean Claude; Uwanyirigira, Chantal.
Students (2009): BYUKUSENGE, Eric; GAKUBA, Steven; HABINSHUTI, Jean Claude; HAKUZIMANA, Jean Damascene; KAMAZIGA, Delphine; MUGWANEZA, Pascale; MUHIRE, Richard; NGABO, Justin; NTAMBARA, Tom; RURANGIRWA, Bailly; SIBOMANA, Aimable; UWANYIRIGIRA, Chantal; UWERA, Laila.