Post-Graduate School. Module 2: Applied Microeconometrics
“Post-Graduate School”
Module 2: Applied Microeconometrics
December 22-26, 2009
Instructor: Professor Aliaksandr Amialchuk, University of Toledo, Department of Economics
amialchuk@gmail.com
Place:
Classes on December 22, 23 and 24 were held at the Belarusian State University (Minsk, Marksa str. 31, Economics Department)
Classes on December 25 and 26 were held at the Minsk International Education Center (IBB)(Minsk, 11 Gazeta Pravda Ave.)
- December 22 (Tuesday)
Place: Belarusian State University, Room 404
08:15-09:35 Lecture 1. Introduction and review of OLS, Maximum Likelihood, hypothesis testing
09:45-11:05 Lecture 2. Cases when the OLS estimator is inconsistent
- December 23 (Wednesday)
Place: Belarusian State University, Room 404
12:45-14:05 Lecture 3. Panel data models (fixed effects, random effects, pooled OLS)
14:25-15:45 Lecture 4. Discrete response models (LPM, logit, probit)
- December 24 (Thursday)
Place: Belarusian State University, Room 404
17:25-18:45 Lecture 5. The Evaluation Problem in Social Sciences
18:55-20:15 Lecture 6. Randomized Experiments
- December 25 (Friday)
Place: Minsk International Education Center (IBB), room A1
11:00-12:20 Lecture 7. Controlling for Confounding Variables (matching on covariates, propensity score
matching, twin and sibling studies)
12:40-14:10 Lecture 8. Difference-in-Differences Estimation
- December 26 (Saturday)
Place: Minsk International Education Center (IBB), room A1
12:00-15:10 Lectures 9, 10. Instrumental Variables Strategy
