The Statistics of Causal Inference in the Social Sciences
Political Science 236 - Fall 2007

Section Notes

Review of probability and statistics

Randomization inference and the Lady Tasting Tea

Review of matrix algebra

Identification of treatment effects

Matching on a continuous covariate

Genetic matching

Kolmogorov-Smirnov test

Hypothesis testing: review and bootstrapping

Problem Sets

Problem Set 1, data, codebook, suggested solutions.

Problem Set 2, suggested solutions.

Problem Set 3, suggested solutions.

Problem Set 4, hints.

Problem Set 5

Problem Set 6, Lalonde data, simulated data, code for simulated data

R Codes

Introduction to R

Lists, matrices, functions and plots

OLS simulations, control structures and Monte Carlos

Univariate matching

Univariate matching (continued) and coverage calculations

Genetic matching

Introduction to bootstrapping

Bootstrapping hypohtesis test

GenMatch() options

Midterm

Midterm

Data and codebook