Causality and Difference in Differences
Required Readings & Lecture Notes.
Parts of these readings and themes from them will be covered in the video lecture.
- Conducting Research with Quasi-Experiments: A Guide for Marketers
- In Section 3, only read 3.1
We'll need some concepts from Linear Regression to work through the Lab & understand lecture content:
- Review of Basic Concepts: Chapters 3, 4, 5, 6 of these notes
- Based on the pre-course survey, many of you are already familiar with these concepts
- Omitted Variables Bias (Chapter 7.5) and Panel Data (Chapter 12) of these notes
- Getting Standard Errors Right
- Linear Regression with
R
Video Lecture
Lab Section
- Group Presentations
- Review of Lab Assignment 1
Lab Assignment
- Link to GitHub repository
- Questions with an answer template contained in repo
- Partial Solutions