Regression adjustment and experiments

Content for Wednesday, January 29, 2025

Readings

• Chapters 1-2 in Mastering Metrics (Angrist and Pischke 2015)
• Chapters 9-10 in The Effect (Huntington-Klein 2021)

Videos

Please watch the following from this YouTube playlist.

• Econometrics: The Path from Cause to Effect
• Ceteris Paribus: Public vs. Private University
• Selection Bias: Will You Make More Going to a Private University?
• Randomized Trials: The Ideal Weapon
• How to Read Economics Research Papers: Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs)

You can also watch the playlist (and skip around to different sections) here:

Optional material

• Videos 19-23 from this playlist accompany Chapters 9-10 in The Effect.
• Unobservable Selection and Coefficient Stability: Theory and Evidence (feel free to skim or skip Sections 3.2 and 3.3) (Oster 2019)

Slides

On the day of class, you will find my slides on Canvas.

References

Angrist, Joshua D., and Jörn-Steffen Pischke. 2015. Mastering ’Metrics: The Path from Cause to Effect. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Huntington-Klein, Nick. 2021. The Effect: An Introduction to Research Design and Causality. Boca Raton, Florida: Chapman and Hall / CRC. https://theeffectbook.net/.

Oster, Emily. 2019. “Unobservable Selection and Coefficient Stability: Theory and Evidence.” Journal of Business & Economic Statistics 37 (2): 187–204. https://doi.org/10.1080/07350015.2016.1227711.