Practice Session for Econometrics for Public Policy

1.STATA basics and randomized trials 1 2. Randomized trials 2 & Regressions 1 3. Regressions 2 4. Instrumental-variable methods 1 5. Instrumental-variable methods 2 6. Regression discontinuity designs 1 7. Regression discontinuity designs 2 8. Differences-in-differences 1 9. Differences-in-differences 2 10. Synthetic control and comparative case study methods 11. Review

A Teaching Fellow (Mr. Chen-Husan LIAO) leads the practice sessions using statistical package software STATA.

There will be 5 to 6 problem-sets (100%). The overall grade will be determined on a curve and follow the UTokyo assessment policy.

1. Angrist, J.D. and J.S. Pischke. (2015). Mastering Econometrics: The Path from Cause to Effect. 2. Angrist, J.D. and J.S. Pischke. (2009). Mostly Harmless Econometrics: An Empiricist's Companion. 3. Abadie, Alberto, Alexis Diamond, and Jens Hainmueller. (2015). “Comparative Politics and the Synthetic Control Method,” American Journal of Political Science 59(2): 495–510. 4.https://jrnold.github.io/*****

Stock, J.H. and M. Watson. (2009). Introduction to Econometrics (3rd Edition)

This course is compulsory for GrasPP students who register for Econometrics for Public Policy.

A guide to using STATA/SE at The University of Tokyo 1. Introduction: The Educational Campus-wide Computing System (ECCS) Support Team is the administrator for releasing the right to use STATA/SE for students. https://www.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/***** 2. Application process: (1) Take the ECCS Online New User Information Seminar https://www.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/***** (2) Apply for the usage right of the remote access environment https://docs.google.com/***** ※ Please refer to “12 Off-campus access to the ECCS environment”. 3. Rules: (1) Student lab license guideline https://www.stata.com/***** (2) Overview of using STATA/SE for educational purposes https://www.lightstone.co.jp/*****