What’s new in this course?

• Using theory a lot

  • thinking through lots of possibly alternative theories

• Natural Experiments

• Designing Quasi-experiments

• Using panel data in new ways

• What is “bad” or misleading about randomized trials, even when they are possible

• We will also review ideas of experiments, but with a new goal:

  • Understanding elements of what makes an experiment useful in order to judge how well particular observational data, particularly natural experiments, can justify causal conclusions

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