In May 2023, we hosted a workshop in Causal Impact Assesment focusing on policy interventions.
About the workshop
How do we assess whether a school policy intervention has had the desired effect on student performance? How do we estimate the impact a natural disaster has had on the inhabitants of affected regions? How can we determine whether a change in the maximum speed on highways has led to fewer accidents? These types of questions are at the core of many social scientific research problems. While questions with this structure are seemingly simple, their causal effects are notoriously hard to estimate, because often the researchers cannot perform a randomized controlled experiment.
The workshop offers hands-on training on several basic and advanced methods (e.g., difference-in-difference, interrupted time series and synthetic control) that can be applied when assessing causal impact. There is a focus on both the assumptions underlying the methods, and how to put them into practice.
Additional information |
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When |
May, 2023. It is likely to be held again in 2024. |
Where |
Utrecht University. |
Registration |
Registration is no longer possible. |
Instructors |
Erik-Jan van Kesteren, Assistant Professor at Utrecht University (Erik-Jan’s website) & OisÃn Ryan Assistant Professor at UMC (OisÃn’s website). |
Materials |
Course materials, including slides and code, are open and can be accessed here. |