Mini-course
Recent methodological advances
in Impact Evaluation
by Prof. Petra Todd (University of Pennsylvania)

As part of the activities prior to the 2024 Annual Meeting of the Latin American and the Caribbean Economic Association (LACEA) and the Latin American and Caribbean Chapter of the Econometric Society (LAMES), the LACEA Impact Evaluation Network (IEN) held a mini-course on recent methodological advances in Impact Evaluation taught by Professor Petra Todd. The mini-course was aimed for researchers, policymakers, students, and all those interested in Impact Evaluation methods. 

Professor Todd is the Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor of Economics and Chair of the Department of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania. She is also a Research Associate of Penn’s Population Studies Center, NBER, and IZA.  She serves on the editorial board of the International Economic Review and the Econometrics Journal.  She is a fellow of the Econometrics Society and of the Society of Labor Economists (SOLE).   

Her main fields of research are social program evaluation, labor economics, and microeconometrics. She has published papers on econometric methods for evaluating the effects of program/policy interventions, the determinants of cognitive achievement, testing for discrimination in motor vehicle searches, sources of racial and gender labor market disparities, pension program design and on conditional cash transfer programs.

Location and registration

The course was held in person at the School of Economics and Administration of the Universidad de la República in Montevideo.

Agenda

1:30 -1:50 pm Registration

1:50 - 2:00 pm Welcome and introduction of Prof. Petra Todd

Session 1

2:00 - 3:30 pm Developments in Causal Analysis 

3:30 - 4:00 pm Coffee Break

Session 2

4:00 - 5:30 pm Integrating RCTs and structural models