Section outline

  • Lecture:Nontraditional Design and Analysis Approaches

    Difference in difference, IV, and regression discontinuity methods
     
    Faculty:  Maria Glymour

    Location:  Mission Hall 1406

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    • Required Reading:

      1. Glymour MM, Walter S, Tchetgen Tchetgen E.  Instrumental Variables in Social Epidemiology.  Forthcoming in: Methods in Social Epidemiology, 2nd edn, Oakes and Kaufman.
      2. Shadish W, Cook T. The renaissance of field experimentation in evaluating interventions. Annual review of psychology. 2009;60:607-629.ONLY NEED TO READ THROUGH PAGE 615 (ON EXPERIMENTAL DESIGNS)
      3. Brookhart et al., Instrumental variable methods in comparative safety and effectiveness research.  Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety 2010 (19): 537-554
      4. Ludwig et al., Neighborhoods, Obesity, and Diabetes -- a randomized social experiment. NEJM 2011; 365:1509-19
      5. Glymour, Tchetgen Tchetgen, and Robins.  Credible Mendelian Randomization. Am J Epi.

    • Brookhart IV CompEffective2010 File
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    • Banks Mazzona 2012-1 File
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    • Glymour CredibleMR File
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    • Ludwig NbhdsObesityDiabetes File
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    • Shadish Cook File
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    • Optional Reading:

      Three optional articles you may find useful someday:

      1. Murray, D., S. Varnell, et al. (2004). "Design and analysis of group-randomized trials: a review of recent methodological developments." American Journal of Public Health 94(3): 423.
      2.        Hayes R, Bennett S. Simple sample size calculation for cluster-randomized trials. Intl J Epidemiol. 1999;28(2):319.
      3. Banks and Mazzonna. The effect of education on old age cognitive abilities: evidence from a regression discontinuity design.  The economic journal, 2012, vol 122 pg 418-488

      I also highly recommend Angrist & Pischke "Mostly Harmless Econometrics: An empiricist's companion"

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