Program
Friday, March 18th
09.00-10.30 Registration and
Welcome
10.30-12.00
Lecture 1:
Regression Discontinuity Designs: Introduction and connection with
randomized experiments
12.00-13:00 Discussion
13.00-14.30 Lunch
14.30-16:00
Lecture 2:
Regression Discontinuity Designs: A User's Guide
16.00-16.30 Coffee break
16.30-18.00
Lecture 3:
Regression Discontinuity Designs: Recent Advances and Applications
18:00-19:00 Discussion
Saturday, March 19th
10.30-12:00
Lecture 4:
Decomposition Methods: Introduction and General Theory of Decompositions
12.00-13:00 Discussion
13.00-14.30 Lunch
14.30-16.00
Lecture 5:
Decomposition Methods: Recent Advances in Methods for Decomposing
Changes in Distributions
16.00-17.00
Discussion
Primary literature:
Regression Discontinuity Designs in Economics (with
David Lee) :
http://faculty.arts.ubc.ca/tlemieux/papers/RD_JEL.pdf
Regression Discontinuity Designs: A Guide to
Practice (with Guido Imbens):
http://faculty.arts.ubc.ca/tlemieux/papers/designs.pdf
Decomposition Methods in Economics (with Nicole
Fortin and Sergio Firpo):
http://faculty.arts.ubc.ca/tlemieux/papers/Decomposition Methods Final.pdf
Note:
20:00 Course Dinner (paid by the participants
on the registration desk)
