Econometric Institute and Princeton University Press Organize the intensive PhD-course:
"Analysis of Treatment Response for Decision Making"
Prof. Charles F. Manski (Northwestern University)
June 2-4, 2004
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Course outline
1. Introduction (Paap)
Measures of Treatment Effects
Identification Issues
2. Utilitarian Treatment of Heterogeneous Populations (Manski, Chapter 1)
- 2.1. Studying Treatment Response to Inform Treatment Choice
- 2.2. The Planning Problem
- 2.3. Practices that Limit the Usefulness of Research on Treatment Response
3. Statistical Decision Theory (Donkers)
- Decision Making with Parameter Uncertainty
4. The Selection Problem and Treatment Choice (Manski, Chapter 2)
- 4.1. Treatment Choice Using the Empirical Evidence Alone
- 4.2. Monotone Treatment Response
- 4.3 Exclusion Restrictions
- 4.4 Incomplete Observation of the Study Population
5. Treatment Effect Analysis (Abbring, Van der Klaauw)
- Social Experiments in Real Time
- The Effects of Financial Rewards on Students' Achievement: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment
6. Treatment Choice with Experimental Data (Manski, Chapter 3)
- 3.1. The Expected Welfare (Risk) of a Statistical Treatment Rule
- 3.2. Using a Renadomized Experiment to Evaluate an Innovation
- 3.3. Using Covariate Information with Data from a Randomized Experiment