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SpL740

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SpL740
Causal Inference and Impact Assessment
Credits 3
Structure 3-0-0
Pre-requisites
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SpL740 : Causal Inference and Impact Assessment

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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.