Information on two separate (Main and Advanced) Causal Inference Workshops at Northwestern Law School this summer follows. Both workshops will be taught by world-class causal inference researchers. Registration for each is limited to 100 participants.
Main workshop: Monday – Friday,
June 24-28, 2013
Advanced workshop: Monday - Wednesday, August 12-14, 2013.
For information and to register for either or both workshops: (click here)
Main Workshop
Overview and Target Audience: Most empirical methods
courses survey a variety of methods. We will begin instead with the goal of
causal inference, and discuss how to design research to come closer to that
goal. The methods are often adapted to a particular study. Some of the methods
we will discuss are covered in PhD programs, but rarely in depth, and rarely
with a focus on causal inference and on which methods to prefer for messy,
real-world datasets with limited sample sizes. Each day will include with a
Stata “workshop” to illustrate selected methods with real data and Stata
code. We will
assume knowledge, at the level of an upper-level college econometrics or similar
course, of multivariate regression, including OLS, logit, and probit;
basic probability and statistics including conditional and compound
probabilities, confidence intervals, t-statistics, and standard errors; and some
understanding of instrumental variables.
Advanced Workshop Overview and Target
Audience: The
advanced workshop seeks to provide an in-depth discussion of selected topics at
the causal inference research frontier. Our target
audience is empirical researchers who are familiar with the basics of causal
inference (from our main workshop or otherwise), and want to extend their
knowledge.
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