Digital badge in Differences in Differences methods

Issued by Universidad del Rosario

Difference-in-Differences (DiD) methods are widely used in the estimation of causal effects of policy interventions in the social and medical sciences. At their core, DiD methods leverage the fact that units are exposed to treatment at different points in time (or never exposed). Consequently, researchers can recover an average treatment effect by comparing outcomes from different treatment cohorts, before and after they have been exposed to treatment.

Type Learning
Level Intermediate
Time Hours

Additional Details

Skills

To Develop A Depth Understanding Of The Canonical Two-periods Two-groups DiD
To Explore The Role Of Covariates In DiD Setups
To Introduce The Recent Methods Of DiD With Variation In Treatment Timing
To Study The Design-based Inference In DiD Settings.

Earning Criteria

• Understood concepts about Differences in Differences methods
• Understood the use of DiD methods in the estimation of causal effects of policy interventions
• Be able to use DiD methods to tackle own research questions