Research Design and Causal Inference, Yale University (Syllabus)

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Chris Blattman

08/09/2010

Short story: Regardless of your specialty, this workshop is designed to improve your research plans, your dissertations, and your job prospects.

Using applications ranging from politics to health to criminology to economics, you’ll learn to rip apart research designs and causal claims. The goal is to help students sharpen their skills as consumers and producers of applied empirical research.

You’ll learn how to design better data collection, test for robustness and sensitivity, interpret coefficients, and fix causal concerns you never knew you had. It’s a dissertation paper boot camp. By the end of class, you’ll know when to hold it, when to fold it, when to walk away, and when to run.

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