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Instrumental Variables in Practice

First-stage strength, overidentification tests, and writing about local average treatment effects.

ZAR 1 350 · 6 weeks

Software: R · Method focus: IV · Level: advanced · Assessment: paper review

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Description

Practice first-stage storytelling, weak instrument diagnostics, and transparent reporting when IV estimates differ from OLS. Includes ethics discussion on plausible instruments.

What is included

  • First-stage table workshop
  • Weak IV simulation notebook
  • Peer critique of exclusion restriction paragraphs
  • Mentor examples from labour and education
  • Robustness matrix template
  • Office hour on heterogeneous compliance

Outcomes

  • Report first-stage diagnostics alongside IV estimates
  • Describe LATE clearly to policy readers
  • Flag when IV is the wrong tool
Portrait for Dr. Fatima Noor

Dr. Fatima Noor

Econometrician with field experience in education RCTs and IV designs.

Reviews

Weak IV section stopped us from shipping a headline number our board would have misread.

— Helena · Think tank

Questions

Not in this course; see Bayesian Regression for Analysts for priors on instruments.