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Applied Econometrics: Mostly Harmless Big Data

Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States14.387
Free, no sign-up neededFall 2014English
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This course covers empirical strategies for applied micro research questions. Our agenda includes regression and matching, instrumental variables, differences-in-differences, regression discontinuity designs, standard errors, and a module consisting of 8–9 lectures on the analysis of high-dimensional data sets a.k.a. “Big Data”.

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