Post-Graduate School. Module 2: Applied Microeconometrics
Module 2 "Applied Microeconometrics" was held on December 22-26, 2009. Instructor: Professor Aliaksandr Amialchuk, University of Toledo, Department of Economics.
- 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
