Seminar in Applied Quantitative Methods - Einzelansicht

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Paper-based, depending on topic.

Examples:

• Schmidheiny, K., Siegloch, S. (2020): On Event Studies and Distributed-Lags in Two-Way Fixed Effects Models: Identification, Equivalence, and Generalization,  ZEW Discussion Paper 20-017.
• De Chasemartin, C., D'Haultf{\oe}uille, X. (2022): Difference-in-Differences Estimators of Intertemporal Treatment Effect, NBER Working Paper 29873.
• Goldsmith-Pinkham, P., Hull, P., Kolesár, M. (2022): Contamination Bias in Linear Regressions, NBER Working Paper 30108.
• Kleven, H. (2016): Bunching, Annual Review of Economics, 8, 435-464.

We recommend successful completion of the courses MA: Microeconometrics as well as MA: Policy Evaluation

Portfolioprüfung (2 Presentations, 1 Seminar Thesis)

Course content and structure

This master seminar aims at providing a deeper understanding of microeconometric estimation techniques that can be used to evaluate public policies. You will learn about issues and recent methodological advances in popular evaluation approaches, such as difference-in-differences. Furthermore, you will practice applying the theoretical insights to an empirical problem of your own choice.

The seminar is structured as follows. After the kick-of meeting where we will give you short introduction into the proposed topics, you will have to hold two presentations. First, you will present the  econometric theory on your topic. Second, you have to find an empirical paper that has applied the method. We ask you to summarize and discuss the application in the second presentation. [Optionally, you may also reestimate the analysis in your application given the new methodological insights, e.g. using data from a replication package.] At the end of the semester, you submit a seminar thesis that discusses both theory and your selected application.