Readings
Required
- Joshua D Angrist and Steve Pischke. Mastering ’Metrics. 2015, Ch. 3
- Sovey, Alison and Donald P. Green (2010), Instrumental Variables Estimation in Political Science: A Readers’ Guide, American Journal of Political Science
- Dunning, Thad (2012), Natural Experiments in the Social Sciences: A Design-Based Approach, Cambridge University Press, Ch. 4
- Acemoglu, Johnson and Robinson, The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation
Additional Readings
- Mostly Harmless Econometrics, Ch.4
- Deaton, Angus S. (2009), Instruments of Development: Ranomization in the Tropics, and the - Search for the Elusive Keys to Economic Development
- Guido W. Imbens and Donald B Rubin. Causal Inference for Statistics, Social, and Biomedical Sciences. 2015. Ch. 23