Econometrics of Treatment Effects (3 cr)

Code:
ECON-EV001
Field:
Econometrics
Targets:
Research Master's students PhD students
Organiser:
Aalto University
Instructor:
Arnaud Maurel (Duke University)
Period:
Period 5
Format:
Lecture
Method:
Contact teaching
Venue:
Otakaari 1, Espoo
Enrollment:

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Lecture Otakaari 1, M240 Not set
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Introduction and Identification of treatment effects; Treatment effect heterogeneity and MTE; Treatment effects and generalized Roy model; Distributional treatment effects and factor models.

This short course will cover several topics on the econometrics of treatment effects. The main emphasis will be on the economic interpretation and identification of various treatment effect parameters, using the Marginal Treatment Effect as a building block for other types of treatment effect parameters. We will pay special attention to the underlying identifying assumptions, which will be analyzed from a statistical and behavioral viewpoint. We will also examine methods allowing to pin down the distribution of treatment effects and discuss the use of factor models in this context as well in the broader context of measurement error models.