| Detailed information |
| Pre-requisites |
(*)KS Statistik für Sozial- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften
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| Original study plan |
Bachelor's programme Economics and Business 2025W |
| Learning Outcomes |
Competences |
| Students learn how to develop research designs and analyze them using statistical software and real-world data
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Skills |
Knowledge |
- Be able to independently use statistical software
- Be able to clean and prepare data for further analysis
- Descriptive statistics, data visualization, and estimating regression models can be independently conducted and interpreted
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- Event studies and differences-in-differences
- Instrumental variables
- Regression discontinuity designs
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| Criteria for evaluation |
Problem sets and end-of-term project
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| Methods |
Lectures and presentations
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| Language |
German or English |
| Study material |
Scott Cunningham (2021), Causal Inference: The Mixtape, Yale University Press.
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| Changing subject? |
No |
| Corresponding lecture |
(*)572GVWLEMEU20: IK Empirical Economics (3 ECTS)
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