Schedule
Here’s your roadmap for the semester!
- Content (): This page contains the readings, slides, and recorded lectures for the topic. Read and watch these first.
- Example (): This page contains fully annotated R code and other supplementary information that you can use as a reference for your assignments and project. This is only a reference page—you don’t have to necessarily do anything here. Some sections also contain videos of me live coding the examples so you can see what it looks like to work with R in real time. This page will be very helpful as you work on your assignments.
- Assignment (): This page contains the instructions for each assignment. Assignments are due by 11:59 PM on the day they’re listed.
| Evaluation and causation | Content | Example | Assignment | |
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August 24–28 (Session 1) |
Evaluation and the causal revolution | |||
| August 31 | Weekly check-in 1 | |||
| August 31 | Problem set 1 | |||
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August 31–September 4 (Session 2) |
Regression and inference | |||
| September 7 | Weekly check-in 2 | |||
| September 7 | Problem set 2 | |||
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September 7–11 (Session 3) |
Theories of change and logic models | |||
| September 14 | Weekly check-in 3 | |||
| September 14 | Evaluation: Background and theory | |||
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September 14–18 (Session 4) |
Measurement and DAGs | |||
| September 21 | Weekly check-in 4 | |||
| September 21 | Evaluation: Measurement | |||
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September 21–25 (Session 5) |
DAGs and potential outcomes | |||
| September 28 | Weekly check-in 5 | |||
| September 28 | Evaluation: Causal model | |||
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September 28–October 2 (Session 6) |
Threats to validity | |||
| October 5 | Weekly check-in 6 | |||
| October 5 | Evaluation: Threats to validity | |||
| October 5–10 | Exam 1 | |||
| Tools and methods | Content | Example | Assignment | |
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October 5–9 (Session 7) |
Randomization and matching | |||
| October 5 | Georgia voter registration deadline | |||
| October 12 | Weekly check-in 7 | |||
| October 12 | Problem set 3 | |||
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October 12–23 (Sessions 8–9) |
Difference-in-differences I + II | |||
| October 19 | Weekly check-in 8 | |||
| October 19 | Problem set 4 | |||
| October 26 | Weekly check-in 9 | |||
| October 26 | Problem set 5 | |||
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October 26–30 (Session 10) |
Regression discontinuity I | |||
| October 30 | Deadline to request an absentee ballot (request must be received by this day) | |||
| November 2 | Weekly check-in 10 | |||
| November 2 | Problem set 6 | |||
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November 2–6 (Session 11) |
Instrumental variables I | |||
| November 3 | Election Day | |||
| November 9 | Weekly check-in 11 | |||
| November 9 | Problem set 7 | |||
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November 9–13 (Session 12) |
Instrumental variables II + Regression discontinuity II | |||
| November 16 | Weekly check-in 12 | |||
| November 16 | Problem set 8 | |||
| November 16–30 | Exam 2 | |||
| Applied evaluation | Content | Example | Assignment | |
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November 16–20 (Session 13) |
Choosing and planning ethical evaluations | |||
| November 30 | Weekly check-in 13 | |||
| November 30 | Problem set 9 | |||
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November 30–December 4 (Session 14) |
Ethics, stories, and curiosity | |||
| December 7 | Weekly check-in 14 | |||
| December 7 | Work session | |||
| Final | Content | Example | Assignment | |
| December 14 | Final project due (submit online by 7:00 PM) |