Agricultural Economics—Without Apology
Here is the eighth of eight lectures I gave at the University of Copenhagen in May for a course titled Causal Inference with Observational Data. This lecture is the second part of my “tricks of the trade” module, which directly stems from this series of posts.
Last year, three of our doctoral students approached me with an offer I could not refuse: The United Nations University’s World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER) had a call for proposals for researchers to use its Vietnamese panel data set to study questions of interest to development. Could we perhaps study the effects of an unanticipated change in tenurial (in)security for a specific group of landowners?
Last week, UNU-WIDER released the working paper Kenn Chua, Julieth Santamaria, Khoa Vu, and I wrote for them on this topic, titled “Tenurial Insecurity and Agricultural Investment: Evidence from Vietnam.” Here is a link to working paper’s page on the UNU-WIDER website (the link to the .pdf is on the left-hand side of the page), and here is the abstract:
Here is the seventh of eight lectures I gave at the University of Copenhagen in May for a course titled Causal Inference with Observational Data.
Stay tuned the eighth and last lecture, Tricks of the Trade II, to be posted one week from today.