Summer Term 2023

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• Formal requirements (German)
• Template: Declaration of academic honesty (German)
• Template: Declaration of consent (German)

Dates

Note: The appointments take place punctually at the specified time (s.t.).

• 18.04.: Kick-off Meeting: 4pm  (probably until 6pm) in presence
• 21.04. until 2 pm: Registration per email with topic preferences
• 25.04.: Introductory meeting: 4pm (probably until 6pm) in presence
• 26.04.: Allocation of the topics
• from 29.04. on: Periodic meetings , every Friday, 10am-12pm
• till 20.05.: Registration on PULS for seminar and portfolio presentation
• Expected on 23.05.: Intermediate presentation
• Expected on 28 & 29.06.: Final presentations and discussions (all day!)

Exam

• Participation in all meetings
• Compliance with all dates and deadlines
• Seminar paper (max. 15 pages)
• Final presentation

Creditable as

• Economics: BA-S-600, B.VM.VWL.710, B.VM.VWL.410, B.VM.VWL.510, B.VM.VWL.113

Requirements

• BA: Statistics
• BA: Empirical Economics / Econometrics
• STATA introductory course

More information can be found on the homepage of the Chair of Methods of Empirical Social Research of Prof. Dr. U. Kohler.

The course is held in English.

Exam

• Written exam (90 min) and presentation in the theoretical session
• Active participation and presentation in practical sessions
• Term paper

Creditable as

• MA-S-600, MA-061

Requirements

• MA: Advanced Microeconometrics strongly recommended

Content

The aim of this course is to provide participants with a deeper understanding of microeconometric estimation techniques. We will use the topic “Policy Evaluation” to illustrate and discuss several methods under various types of assumptions.

Topics

• Causality and the Potential Outcome Framework
• Experiments
• Unconfoundedness
• Matching
• Difference-in-Differences
• Instrumental Variables
• Regression Discontinuity

The lecture will be complemented by a practical computer session where the estimators will be implemented using STATA.

Literature

• Caliendo, M. and Hujer, R. (2006): The Microeconometric Estimation of Treatment Effects - An Overview, Journal of the German Statistical Society / Allgemeines Statistisches Archiv, 90(1), 197-212.
• Imbens, G., and J.M. Wooldridge (2009): Recent Developments in the Econometrics of Program Evaluation, Journal of Economic Literature, 47(1), 5-86.
• A detailed reading list with relevant papers will be distributed in due time.