Credits: 3 (3-0-0)
Description
Introduction to Impact Assessment; Causality and the Problem of Confounders; Counterfactuals; Experimental design in social sciences: Randomized Control Trials or RCTs; Implementation failures within the RCT framework: Non-Compliance, Attrition, Interference; Critique of RCTs; Instrumental Variables; Matching Estimators; Propensity Score Methods; Difference in Difference Methods; Regression Discontinuity Design; Synthetic Control Methods; Structural Causal Models; Causal Forests; List Experiments and Natural Experiments; Qualitative Methods for Causal Inference.