Corsi di Studio del Dipartimento di Culture, Politica e Società

Provide students with basic analytic tools for analysis and interpretation of data in the field of development economics. 

Good knowledge of basic econometric tools for the analysis of data and interpretation of empirical results in the field of applied development economics. 

Basic quantitative tools for analysis of data: theory (Econometrics) and practice (STATA)

Application of econometric tools to development economics. 

In particular, the following topics will be covered: 

• Data management and basic statistics in STATA
• OLS: introduction, assumptions & applications
• Causal inference, difference-in-differences & programme evaluation
• Hypothesis testing
• Model selection
• Instrumental Variables

12 lectures of 3h each. Course materials will be uploaded on the moodle page of the course.

Students enrolled can download a study version of STATA 17 for practice. 

The course will start on Feb, 22nd and will end on April, 5th. It will be held on Thursdays and Fridays from 2 to 5 pm.   

Possible changes in the schedule will be communicated through the Moodle platform

Student's work (in group), e.g. essay/commentary with analysis of a dataset provided by the instructor, to be formally submitted by May, 6th and presented in class on May, 9th (classroom E3 14.30-16.00).

 

Extra, self-organized tutorials might be scheduled during the course.

- Lecture slides and other materials suggested during classes.

- (MAIN) M. Söderbom, F. Teal, M. Eberhardt, S. Quinn and A. Zeitlin. Empirical Development Economics. London and New York: Routledge

- J. Angrist & JS Pischke, Mostly Harmless Econometrics. Princeton press.

A maximum of 25 students can be enrolled in this Lab.

In case of higher demand, the price will go up: selection will be based on the student's performance in the module Development Economics and International Cooperation (Prof. Conzo). 

Extra students will be admitted upon motivated request, and - in any case - the decision will be based on the instructors' discretion. 

You have to enroll FIRST through this page (campusnet).

The "click day" is on FEBRUARY 12th starting at 9.00 am, when the official registration to this course will be opened on this platform.

Registration will close anyway on FEBRUARY 21th.

Then, before the beginning of the classes, only the students who managed to enroll in this platform will receive the password to enroll on the official moodle page of the course.

The "lucky" enrolled students are expected to guarantee their active participation in all the course activities (also as a form of respect towards the students who were willing to enroll but could not make it).