Friday, May 22, 2009

Sebastian Galiani

Washington University in St. Louis

Sebastian Galiani

Empirical Research Methods for Development and Institutional Economics

Abstract

In this workshop we will review the empirical methods used to uncover causal effects in economics. We will study experimental and quasi-experimental designs. In particular, we will study the design of simple and group randomized experiments, instrumental variable methods, panel data methods and regression discontinuity designs. Finally, we also discuss the use of experiment to recover behavioral parameters that allow us to simulate counterfactual interventions.