Lecture Notes

1. Week 01. Introduction - Why development economics?
2. Week 02. Basics of impact evaluation
3. Week 03. Stata Intro [pdf]
4. Week 04. Stata Continued [pdf]
5. Week 05. Diff-in-Diff & Clustering [pdf]
6. Week 06. Standard Errors
7. Week 07. Instrumental Variables [pdf]
8. Week 08. Attrition
9. Week 09. Duflo's JMP
10. Week 10. Propensity Score Matching [pdf]
11. Week 11. PSM continued
12. Week 12. Interactions & Centering [pdf]
13. Week 13. Programming Stata
14. Week 14. Standard Errors Revisited [pdf]
15. Week 15. Review [pdf]
16. 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]