Last updated on June 22, 2018
Here is the fifth of eight lectures I gave at the University of Copenhagen in May for a course title Causal Inference with Observational Data.
The difference between this and the other topics I covered in the class is that I have no first-hand experience doing RD. As such, those slides were first drafted by my PhD student Camilo Bohorquez-Peñuela, who gave the RD lecture as a guest lecturer in my doctoral applied econometrics class two years ago. Camilo has just defended his dissertation and is headed to the Central Bank of Colombia to work as a researcher there. Congratulations, Camilo!
Stay tuned for lectures 6 to 8 over the next few weeks, which will cover nonstandard dependent variables (Lecture 6) and various tricks of the trade (Lectures 7 and 8). The real payoff, for most readers of this blog, I suspect, will be in those last two lectures.