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Causal inference using Stata: Estimating average treatment effects

$1,395 4 days (3 to 4 hours daily)

Learn how to use Stata’s treatment-effects estimators to estimate the effect caused by getting one treatment instead of another in observational data. We will discuss how observational data differ from experimental data and use the potential-outcomes framework to obtain the average treatment effect and the average treatment effect on the treated using a variety of estimators, including those suitable for endogenously assigned treatment. We will cover the conceptual and theoretical underpinnings of treatment effects as well as many examples using Stata.

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Course leader

Alvaro Fuentes Higuera portrait

Alvaro Fuentes Higuera

Senior Econometrician

Alvaro Fuentes Higuera is a Senior Econometrician at StataCorp LLC. His PhD research at the Leibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics Education in Kiel, Germany, focused on propensity-score methods for causal inference with multilevel data. At Stata, he produces documentation and other written materials and develops and presents trainings.

Prerequisite

  • A general familiarity with Stata and a graduate-level course in regression analysis or comparable experience.

Course topics

  • Treatment-effects estimators
    • Regression-adjustment estimator
    • Inverse-probability-weighting (IPW) estimator
    • Augmented IPW estimator
    • IPW regression-adjustment estimator
    • Nearest-neighbor matching estimator
    • Propensity-score matching estimator
    • Treatment-effects estimation using lasso
    • Difference-in-differences estimation
  • Endogenous treatment effects within the potential-outcome framework
  • The double-robustness property of the augmented IPW and IPW regression-adjustment estimators
  • Using different functional forms for the outcome model and treatment model

Notes

Enrollment is limited. This course is offered in both classroom and web-based settings.

Classroom training courses are two-day courses that run from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. each day. These courses take place at a training center where computers with Stata installed are provided. A continental breakfast, lunch, and an afternoon snack will also be provided; the breakfast is available before the course begins.

Web-based training courses are four-day courses that run for three to four hours daily with hourly breaks. You will be provided with a temporary Stata license to install on your computer, a printed copy of the course notes, and all the course datasets so that you can easily follow along.

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