letingz/fall-2020

Course Schedule

Class	Date	Topics to Cover	Pre-class reading	Due
1	Tue Aug 25	Course Intro/Productivity/Computational Tools	Julia reference slides
2	Thu Aug 27	What is structural modeling?	Lewbel (2019 ) Sections 1, beginning of Section 5, and 5.1	Reading Quiz
3	Tue Sep 1	Structural modeling process	Keane YouTube talk	PS 1
4	Thu Sep 3	Random Utility Models & Logit	Train, Ch. 1-2, 3.1-3.3, 3.7-3.8	Reading Quiz
5	Tue Sep 8	Coding Day - go over PS 2		PS 2
6	Thu Sep 10	GEV	Train, 4.1-4.2	Reading Quiz
7	Tue Sep 15	Coding Day - go over PS 3		PS 3
8	Thu Sep 17	Mixed Logit, Finite mixture models, EM algorithm	Train, 6.1-6.3, Ch. 14	Reading Quiz
9	Tue Sep 22	Coding Day - go over PS 4		PS 4
10	Thu Sep 24	Dynamic choice models	Rust (1987)	Reading Quiz
11	Tue Sep 29	Coding Day - go over PS 5		PS 5
12	Thu Oct 1	Estimating dynamic models without solving	Hotz & Miller (1993); Arcidiacono & Miller (2011)	Reading Quiz
13	Tue Oct 6	Coding Day - go over PS 6		PS 6
14	Thu Oct 8	Simulated Method of Moments	Train, 10.1-10.2; Smith, p. 1	Reading Quiz
15	Tue Oct 13	Coding Day - go over PS 7		PS 7
16	Thu Oct 15	Model Fit, Counterfactuals, Model validation	Fu, Grau and Rivera (2020), Lang and Palacios (2018)	Reading Quiz
17	Tue Oct 20	Subjective Expectations, Stated Preference and Choice Experiments	Train, 7.2-7.3; Koşar, Ransom and van der Klaauw (2020), section 3.3	Reading Quiz
18	Thu Oct 22	Measurement Error & Factor Models	Heckman, Stixrud and Urzua (2006)	Reading Quiz
19	Tue Oct 27	Coding Day - go over PS 8		PS 8
20	Thu Oct 29	Midterm Exam (in class)
---	Tue Nov 3	No class (Election Day)
21	Thu Nov 5	Causal Modeling: DAGs and Potential Outcomes	Mixtape	Reading Quiz
22	Tue Nov 10	Overview of Reduced-form Causal Inference Techniques	Mixtape	Reading Quiz
23	Thu Nov 12	Regression and Partial identification	Krauth (2016), Oster (2019)	PS 9
24	Tue Nov 17	ATE, LATE, MTE		Reading Quiz
25	Thu Nov 19	Treatment Effect Heterogeneity		Reading Quiz
26	Tue Nov 24	Intro to Machine Learning		Reading Quiz
---	Thu Nov 26	No class (Thanksgiving)
27	Tue Dec 1	Machine Learning for Causal Modeling		Reading Quiz
28	Thu Dec 3	Matrix Completion Methods (Time permitting)		Reading Quiz
29	Tue Dec 8	Presentations		Presentation
30	Thu Dec 10	Presentations		Presentation, Referee Report
---	Mon Dec 14	Final Exam (Referee Report due)		Research Proposal