Full course syllabus is here.
| Class | Date | Topics to Cover | Pre-class reading | Due |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tue Aug 20 | Course Intro/Productivity/Computational Tools | Julia reference slides | |
| 2 | Thu Aug 22 | Clean code | Gentzkow & Shapiro's handbook | |
| 3 | Tue Aug 27 | Coding Day - go over PS 1 | PS 1; here is a walkthrough video for setting up your GitHub fork and using Julia in VS Code | |
| 4 | Thu Aug 29 | What is structural modeling? | Lewbel (2019) Sections 1, beginning of Section 5, and 5.1 | Reading Quiz |
| 5 | Tue Sep 3 | Structural modeling process | Keane YouTube talk | |
| 6 | Thu Sep 5 | Random Utility Models & Logit | Train, Ch. 1-2, 3.1-3.3, 3.7-3.8 | Reading Quiz |
| 7 | Tue Sep 10 | Coding Day - go over PS 2 | PS 2 | |
| 8 | Thu Sep 12 | GEV | Train, 4.1-4.2 | Reading Quiz |
| 9 | Tue Sep 17 | Coding Day - go over PS 3 | PS 3 | |
| 10 | Thu Sep 19 | Mixed Logit, Finite mixture models, EM algorithm | Train, 6.1-6.3, Ch. 14 | Reading Quiz |
| 11 | Tue Sep 24 | Coding Day - go over PS 4 | PS 4 | |
| 12 | Thu Sep 26 | Dynamic choice models | Rust (1987) | Reading Quiz |
| 13 | Tue Oct 1 | Coding Day - go over PS 5 | PS 5 | |
| 14 | Thu Oct 3 | Estimating dynamic models without solving | Hotz & Miller (1993); Arcidiacono & Miller (2011) | Reading Quiz |
| 15 | Tue Oct 8 | Coding Day - go over PS 6 | PS 6 | |
| 16 | Thu Oct 10 | Simulated Method of Moments | Train, 10.1-10.2; Smith, p. 1 | Reading Quiz |
| 17 | Tue Oct 15 | Coding Day - go over PS 7 | PS 7 | |
| 18 | Thu Oct 17 | Model Fit, Counterfactuals, Model validation | Fu, Grau and Rivera (2022), Lang and Palacios (2018) | Reading Quiz |
| 19 | Tue Oct 22 | Subjective Expectations, Stated Preference and Choice Experiments | Train, 7.2-7.3; Koşar, Ransom and van der Klaauw (2024), section 3.3 | Reading Quiz |
| 20 | Thu Oct 24 | Measurement Error & Factor Models | Heckman, Stixrud and Urzua (2006) | Reading Quiz |
| 21 | Tue Oct 29 | Coding Day - go over PS 8 | PS 8 | |
| 22 | Thu Oct 31 | Learning models | Miller (1984) | |
| 23 | Tue Nov 5 | Constrained optimization and equilibrium models | Start finding a paper for presentation/referee report | |
| 24 | Thu Nov 7 | Obtaining causal effects without an "identification strategy" | Altonji, Elder & Taber (2005) | Reading Quiz |
| 25 | Tue Nov 12 | DAGs and do-Calculus | Mixtape, Ch. 3 | Reading Quiz |
| 26 | Thu Nov 14 | Potential Outcomes, ATE, LATE, and Control Functions | Mixtape, Ch. 4 | Reading Quiz |
| 27 | Tue Nov 19 | Intro to Machine Learning | James et al., section 2.1 (pp. 15-29) | Reading Quiz |
| 28 | Thu Nov 21 | Machine Learning for Causal Modeling | Work on Referee Report & Presentation | |
| --- | Tue Nov 26 | No class | ||
| --- | Thu Nov 28 | No class (Thanksgiving) | ||
| 29 | Tue Dec 3 | Presentations or Time Series Intro (depending on time) | Presentation | |
| 30 | Thu Dec 5 | Presentations | Presentation, Referee Report due (submit to Canvas) | |
| --- | Mon Dec 10 | No in-class Final Exam | ||
| --- | Wed Dec 12 | Research Proposal due (submit to Canvas) |