LISER will have the great pleasure of hosting a course on Difference-in-Differences, led by Prof. Clément de Chaisemartin, in March/April 2025. It will be a 12-hour course over 4 days, in English.
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Course Description
This training provides an in-depth course in Difference-in-Differences (DiD), a foundational tool in policy evaluation. The course begins with a review of fundamental concepts and progresses to advanced techniques, emphasizing the latest innovations fueling the ongoing "DiD revolution". Participants will gain both theoretical knowledge and practical expertise in cutting-edge methods that tackle challenges such as heterogeneous treatment effects, staggered and non-staggered treatment adoption, fuzzy settings, and non-binary, continuous, and multiple treatments.
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Content
- Introduction
- Data, notation, and assumptions
- Classical DID design
- Relaxing parallel trends
- Binary and staggered designs
- Heterogeneous adoption designs
- General designs
- Designs with several treatments
- Parallel trends with respect to an IV