Course Materials
| Week | Date | Topic | Slides | Extra materials | Due |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2025-09-30 | General introduction with four examples | Lecture 1 | Papers listed at the end of slides | — |
| 1 | 2025-10-02 | Potential outcome framework concepts | Lecture 2 | Papers listed at the end of slides | — |
| 2 | 2025-10-07 | Randomized experiment and Fisher’s exact p-value | Lecture 3 | — | — |
| 3 | 2025-10-14 | Fisher’s exact test: R example and case study | Lecture 4 | R Example to compute Fisher’s exact p-value | — |
| 3 | 2025-10-16 | Neyman’s repeated sampling approach for completely randomized experiments | Lecture 5 | — | — |
| 3 | 2025-10-19 | — | — | — | HW1 due at 11:59pm |
| 4 | 2025-10-21 | Regression for completely randomized experiment | Lecture 6 | R Example for regression analysis | — |
| 4 | 2025-10-23 | Stratified randomized experiments | Lecture 7 | case study on HOMEFOOD randomized trial | — |
| 4 | 2025-10-24 | — | — | — | Quiz1 due |
| 5 | 2025-10-27 | — | — | — | HW2 due at 11:59pm |
| 5 | 2025-10-28 | Pairwise randomized experiments | Lecture 8 | R example | — |
| 5 | 2025-10-30 | Non-compliance and instrumental variables, part I | Lecture 9 | — | — |
| 6 | 2025-11-04 | Non-compliance and instrumental variables, part II | Lecture 10 | R example on Job Search Intervention Study | — |
| 6 | 2025-11-06 | Conditional randomized experiments, unconfoundedness | Lecture 11 | — | — |
| 6 | 2025-11-09 | — | — | — | Project Dataset selection due at 11:59pm |
| 7 | 2025-11-10 | — | — | — | HW3 due at 11:59pm |
| 7 | 2025-11-11 | Propensity score estimation, trimming, stratification | Lecture 12 | Simple stratification, Lalonde stratification | — |
| 7 | 2025-11-13 | Matching methods | Lecture 13 | Lalonde matching | — |
| 8 | 2025-11-18 | Inverse probability weighting & doubly robust estimator | Lecture 14, Lecture 15 | Lalonde IPW | — |
| 8 | 2025-11-20 | Assessing unconfoundedness & Sensitivity Analysis (if time permit) | Lecture 16, Lecture 17 | — | — |
| 8 | 2025-11-21 | — | — | — | Quiz2 due |
| 8 | 2025-11-23 | — | — | — | HW4 due at 11:59pm |