Course Guidelines and Content

Group Assignment

Lecture Slides

Lecture 1: Introduction Slides

Lecture 2: Rubin's Causal Model Slides

Lecture 3: Panel Data and Fixed Effects Slides, (STATA do file)

Lecture 4: Assumptions for POLS, FE and FD in panel data

Lecture 5: Difference in Difference Slides, An interesting blog post on DID and parallel trends

Lecture 6: An Application of Difference in Difference Slides, (STATA dataset, do file)

Lecture 7: Instrumental Variables and LATE Slides

Lecture 8: Instrumental Variables Estimation Slides, (STATA dataset, do file)

Lecture 9: Clustering and Standard Errors Slides, (STATA dataset, do file)

Lecture 10: Fatal Fluctuations? Cyclicality in infant mortality in India and Booms, Busts, and Babies' Health

Lecture 11: Coping with the Consequences of Short-Term Illness Shocks (Slides)

Lecture 12: Group 1 - Mitra, S., Palmer, M., Mont, D., & Groce, N. (2016). Can households cope with health shocks in Vietnam? Health Economics. (Slides)

Lecture 13: Cycling to School

Lecture 14: Group 2 - Liu, K. (2016). Insuring against health shocks: Health insurance and household choices. Journal of Health Economics. (Slides)

Lecture 15: Group 3 - Cogneau, D., & Jedwab, R. (2012). Commodity price shocks and child outcomes: The 1990 cocoa crisis in Cote d’Ivoire. Economic Development and Cultural Change. (Slides)

Lecture 16: RDD in economics, (RDD do file)

Lecture 17: Group 4 - Kazianga, H., & Makamu, F. (2016). Crop Choice, school participation, and child labor in developing countries: Cotton expansion in Burkina Faso. American Journal of Agricultural Economics. (Slides)

Lecture 18: Wells, Water and Welfare, (causal graphs)

Lecture 19: The Effects of Rural Electrification on Employment 

Lecture 20: The Effects of Rural Electrification on Employment, (STATA dataset, do file)

Lecture 21: Group 5 - Genoni, M. E. (2012). Health shocks and consumption smoothing: Evidence from Indonesia. Economic Development and Cultural Change. (Slides)

Lecture 22: Group 6 - Gertler, P., & Gruber, J. (2002). Insuring consumption against illness. American Economic Review. (Slides)

Lecture 23: Group 7 - Krishnamurthy, P., Pathania, V., & Tandon, S. (2017). Food price subsidies and nutrition: Evidence from state reforms to India’s public distribution system. Economic Development and Cultural Change. (Slides)

Lecture 24: Group 8 - Nunn, N., & Qian, N. (2011). The potato's contribution to population and urbanization: Evidence from a historical experiment. The Quarterly Journal of Economics. (Slides)

Lecture 25: Group 9 - Gollin, D., Hansen, C. W., & Wingender, A. (2018). Two blades of grass: The impact of the green revolution National Bureau of Economic Research. (Slides)

Lecture 26: Agricultural Productivity and Structural Transformation (Slides)

Lecture 27: Agricultural Productivity and Structural Transformation (Slides)

Lecture 28: Farther on Down the Road: Transport Costs, Trade and Urban Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa  (Slides)

Lecture 29: Farther on Down the Road: Transport Costs, Trade and Urban Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa

Lecture 30: Selection on Observed and Unobserved Variables and Coefficient Stability (Slides) (AATJHR, AATJPE)

Lecture 31: Assessing the Impact of Crop Diversification on Farm Poverty in India 

Course Guidelines and Content

Group Assignment

Assignment: Imbens 2014

Lecture Slides

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Language, Confusion, and Models in Empirical Economics by Phil Haile Slides, CH13, SEM

Lecture 3: Properties of OLS by Brandon Stewart Slides

Lecture 4: Rubin's causal model Slides

Lecture 5: Rubin's causal model Slides, (data, replication file)

Lecture 6: Panel Data and Fixed Effects Slides, (data, replication file)

Lecture 7: Panel Data and Fixed Effects Slides, (data, replication file)

Lecture 8: Panel Data and Fixed Effects Slides, Slides, (data, replication file)

Lecture 9: Difference-in-Difference Slides, (An interesting blog post on DID and parallel trends)

Lecture 10: DID Application Slides, (data, replication file)

Lecture 11: DID Application Slides, (data, replication file)

Lecture 12: Instrumental Variable Estimation Slides

Lecture 13: Instrumental Variable Estimation Slides, (LATE) (data, replication file)

Lecture 14: An Application (Rural Electrification and Employment, data, replication file)

Lecture 15: Clustering Slides (IHDS panel, IHDS cohort, replication file)

Lecture 16: Regression Discontinuity Design (RDD in Economics, example) (causal graphs)

Lecture 17: Group 1 - Menon, S. (2020). The effect of marital endowments on domestic violence in India. JDE. (slides)

Lecture 18: Group 2 - Sekhri, S., & Storeygard, A. (2014). Dowry deaths: Response to weather variability in India. JDE. (slides)

Lecture 19: Group 3 - Bhalotra, S., Chakravarty, A., & Gulesci, S. (2020). The price of gold: Dowry and death in India. JDE. (slides)

Lecture 20: Group 4 - Duflo, E. (2003). Grandmothers and granddaughters. WBER. (slides)

Lecture 21: TG - Heath, R., & Tan, X. (2020). Intrahousehold bargaining, female autonomy, and labor supply. JEEA. (slides)

Lecture 22: TG - Heath, R., & Tan, X. (2018). Worth fighting for: Daughters improve their mother's autonomy in South Asia. JDE. (slides)

Lecture 23: Group 5 - Sanchari, R. (2015). Empowering women? Inheritance rights, female education and dowry payments in India. JDE. (slides)

Lecture 24: Group 6 - Bhalotra, S., Brulé, R., & Roy, S. (2018). Women's inheritance rights reform and the preference for sons in India. JDE. (slides)

Lecture 25: Group 7 - Bhalotra, S., Chakravarty, A., Mookherjee, D., & Pino, F. J. (2019). Property rights and gender bias. AEJ. (slides)

Lecture 26: Group 8 - Deininger, K., Goyal, A., & Nagarajan, H. (2013). Women's inheritance rights and intergenerational transmission of resources in India. JHR. (slides)

Lecture 27: Partial Identification Slides, (AET 2005a, AET 2005b)

Lecture 28: Partial Identification Slides, (Oster 2019, BRN 2015, BRN replication files)

Lecture 29: Group 9 - Alesina, A., Giuliano, P., & Nunn, N. (2013). On the origins of gender roles. QJE. (slides)

Lecture 30: Group 10 - Carranza, E. (2014). Soil endowments, female labor force participation, and the demographic deficit of women in India. AEJ. (slides)

Lecture 31: Group 11 - Mahajan, K., & Ramaswami, B. (2017). Caste, female labor supply, and the gender wage gap in India. EDCC. (slides) 

Lecture 32: Group 12 - Field, E., & Ambrus, A. (2008). Early marriage, age of menarche, and female schooling attainment in Bangladesh. JPE. (slides)

Course Guidelines and Content

Group Assignment

Assignment: US Food Aid and Civil Conflict, (replication material)

Lecture Slides

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Properties of OLS by Brandon Stewart Slides

Lecture 3: Properties of OLS Slides (estimation, example)

Lecture 4: Rubin's causal model Slides

Lecture 5: Rubin's causal model Slides, (data, replication file)

Lecture 6: Panel Data and Fixed Effects Slides, (data, replication file)

Lecture 7: Panel Data and Fixed Effects Slides, (data, replication file)

Lecture 8: Difference-in-Difference Slides, (An interesting blog post on DID and parallel trends)

Lecture 9: Difference-in-Difference Slides, (Card and Kruger, 2000)

Lecture 10: DID Application Slides, (data, replication file)

Lecture 11: DID Application Slides, (data, replication file)

Lecture 12: Instrumental Variable Estimation Slides

Lecture 13: Instrumental Variable Estimation Slides, (paper, data, replication file)

Lecture 14: Local Average Treatment Effect Slides, (LATE)

Lecture 15: An Application (Rural Electrification and Employment, data, replication file)

Lecture 16: Clustering Slides (paper, IHDS panel, IHDS cohort, replication file) (Blog post on clustering)

Lecture 17: Regression Discontinuity Design (RDD in Economics, example) (causal graphs)

Lecture 18: Models of Optimal Risk Sharing Slides

Lecture 19: Models of Optimal Risk Sharing Slides, (Townsend, 1994)

Lecture 20: Models of Optimal Risk Sharing Slides, (Paper)

Lecture 21: Group 1 - Mace, B. J. (1991). Full Insurance in the Presence of Aggregate Uncertainty, JPE. (slides)

Lecture 22: Group 2 - Cochrane, J. H. (1991). A Simple Test of Consumption Insurance, JPE. (slides)

Lecture 23: Group 3 - Asdrubali, P., Sørensen, B. E., & Yosha, O. (1996). Channels of Interstate Risk Sharing, QJE. (slides)

Lecture 24: Group 4 - Asdrubali, P., Tedeschi, S., & Ventura, L. (2020). Household Risk-Sharing Channels, QE. (slides)

Lecture 25: Group 5 - Jack, W., & Suri, T. (2014). Risk-Sharing and Transactions Costs: Evidence from Kenya's Mobile Money Revolution, AER. (slides)

Lecture 26: Group 6 - Riley, E. (2018). Mobile Money and Risk-Sharing Against Village Shocks, JDE. (slides)

Lecture 27: Group 7 - Kose, M. A., Prasad, E., & Terrones, M. E. (2009). Does Financial Globalization Promote Risk-Sharing?, JDE. (slides)

Lecture 28: Group 8 - Kalemli-Ozcan, S., Sørensen, B. E., & Yosha, O. (2003). Risk-Sharing and Industrial Specialization, AER. (slides)

Lecture 29: Group 9 - Fafchamps, M., & Lund, S. (2003). Risk-Sharing Networks in Rural Philippines, JDE. (slides)

Lecture 30: Group 10 - Fafchamps, M., & Flore, G. (2007). The Formation of Risk-Sharing Networks, JDE. (slides)

Lecture 31: Group 11 - De Weerdt, J., & Dercon, S. (2006). Risk-Sharing Networks and Insurance Against Illness, JDE. (slides)

Lecture 32: Group 12 - Hotte, R., & Marazyan, K. (2020). Demand for Insurance and Within-Kin-Group Marriages: Evidence from a West-African Country, JDE. (slides)