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SOCIOL2245: Causal Inference for the Social Sciences

Semester: 

Spring

Offered: 

2021
It is an adage that association does not imply causation, yet causality is at the center of most social science inquiries. This course introduces a set of concepts, assumptions, and methods that allow students to rigorously assess causal relationships from experimental and observational data. Drawing on applications from sociology, economics, and political science, we discuss a variety of research designs and statistical methods, including randomized experiments, regression adjustment, matching and weighting, instrumental variables, regression discontinuity designs, panel data models (... Read more about SOCIOL2245: Causal Inference for the Social Sciences

SOCIOL 90Z: Inequality

Semester: 

Spring

Offered: 

2020

This course introduces students to both classical and frontier research on social and economic inequalities. By analyzing data from the Current Population Survey (CPS) and National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth (NLSY), we investigate educational inequality, labor market inequality, and intergenerational mobility in the United States. In the context of these topics, students will build skills in data analysis and data visualization in R and learn a variety of quantitative methods including regression, causal inference, and machine learning. We use...

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