RDD系列讲座

时间: 10:00-11:00, 2012年9月11日-14日
地点: 我院241室
工作语言: 中文/英文
演讲人: 冯俊晨

    冯俊晨是美国芝加哥大学哈里斯公共政策学院硕士、博士生。他从英国(正版)365官方网站获得学士学位。他的研究兴趣是应用计量经济学，劳动经济学，退休金融以及机器学习。

S1: Intro to Empirical Political Economy (9月11日)

推荐阅读:

1. Instruments of development: Randomization in the tropics, and the search for the elusive keys to economic development, AS Deaton, NBER
2. Better LATE than nothing: Some comments on Deaton (2009) and Heckman and Urzua (2009), GW Imbens, NBER
3.The credibility revolution in empirical economics: How better research design is taking the con out of Econometrics, J Angrist, JS Pischke, NBER

S2: Most Harmless Micro-econometrics (in 10 slides) (9月12日)

推荐阅读:

1. Mostly Harmless Econometrics: An Empiricist's Campanion, by Angrist and Priscke
2. Regression Discontinuity Designs: A Guide to Practice
3. [Technical!] Identification and estimation of local average treatment effects, GW Imbens, JD Angrist - Econometrica, 1994

S3: Institutions (9月13日)

推荐阅读:

1. The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation, D ACEMOGLU, S JOHNSON, JA ROBINSON - THE AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW, 2001
2. Taxes, institutions and local governance: evidence from a natural experiment in colonial Nigeria, Daniel Berger

S4: Regression Discontinuity Design (9月14日)

推荐阅读:

1. Do voters affect or elect policies? Evidence from the US House, DS Lee, E Moretti, MJ Butler - The Quarterly Journal of Econometrics, 2004
2. Elections and the Regression Discontinuity Design: Lessons from Close US House Races, 1942?C2008, D Caughey, JS Sekhon - Political Analysis, 2011