Reading list and references

The handbooks the lectures follow, the additional literature sheet, and every work cited in the slides

Before the course

  • 📄 Prerequisites: the concepts each of the first three weeks assumes, with links to pre-recorded Ilias lectures and Khan Academy units. Also as PDF for 2024/25 and 2023/24.

Key handbooks

This is the content of the additional literature sheet distributed to the 2024/25 cohort (mk68-additional-literature.pdf).

Statistics

  • 📖 OpenIntro Statistics, David Diez, Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel and Christopher Barr, 2019. openintro.org/book/os (free PDF). The chapters used:
    • 1.3 Sampling principles and strategies
    • 1.4 Experiments
    • Chapter 2 Summarizing data
    • 3.1 Defining probability, in particular 3.1.2 Law of large numbers
    • 3.4 Random variables
    • 3.5 Continuous distributions
    • 4.1 Normal distribution
    • Chapter 7 Inference for numerical data
    • Chapter 8 Introduction to linear regression

Econometrics

  • 📖 Mastering ’Metrics: the path from cause to effect, Joshua D. Angrist and Jörn-Steffen Pischke, Princeton University Press, 2015. Find it in the JLU library. Only:
    • Chapter 1 Randomized Trials
    • Chapter 2 Regression

Notable additions

Videos referred to in the slides

Works cited in the slides

Every reference cited across the slide sources, from references.bib.

Angrist, Joshua D., and Jörn-Steffen Pischke. 2009. Mostly Harmless Econometrics. Princeton University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400829828.
Angrist, Joshua D., and Jörn-Steffen Pischke. 2014. Mastering’metrics: The Path from Cause to Effect. Princeton University Press.
Angrist, Joshua D, and Jörn-Steffen Pischke. 2010. “The Credibility Revolution in Empirical Economics: How Better Research Design Is Taking the Con Out of Econometrics.” Journal of Economic Perspectives 24 (2): 3–30. https://doi.org/10.1257/jep.24.2.3.
Burtless, Gary. 1995. “The Case for Randomized Field Trials in Economic and Policy Research.” Journal of Economic Perspectives 9 (2): 63–84. https://doi.org/10.1257/jep.9.2.63.
Cairo, Alberto. 2016. Download the Datasaurus: Never trust summary statistics alone; always visualize your data. http://www.thefunctionalart.com/2016/08/download-datasaurus-never-trust-summary.html.
Carter, Susan Payne, Kyle Greenberg, and Michael S. Walker. 2017. “The Impact of Computer Usage on Academic Performance: Evidence from a Randomized Trial at the United States Military Academy.” Economics of Education Review 56 (February): 118–32. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econedurev.2016.12.005.
Deaton, Angus S. 2009. Instruments of Development: Randomization in the Tropics, and the Search for the Elusive Keys to Economic Development. National Bureau of Economic Research.
Diez, David, Mine Cetinkaya-Rundel, and Christopher D Barr. 2022. OpenIntro Statistics: Fourth Edition. OpenIntro. https://www.openintro.org/book/os/.
Dowdy, Shirley, Stanley Weardon, and Daniel Chilko. 2004. Statistics for Research. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1002/0471477435.
Duflo, Esther, Michael Kremer, and Jonathan Robinson. 2008. “How High Are Rates of Return to Fertilizer? Evidence from Field Experiments in Kenya.” American Economic Review 98 (2): 482–88. https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.98.2.482.
Feng, Qu, and William C Horrace. 2012. “Alternative Technical Efficiency Measures: Skew, Bias and Scale.” Journal of Applied Econometrics 27 (2): 253–68.
Fiszbein, Ariel, Norbert Schady, Francisco H. G. Ferreira, et al. 2009. Conditional Cash Transfers : Reducing Present and Future Poverty. The World Bank. https://doi.org/10.1596/978-0-8213-7352-1.
Gerbrandy, J. L., and E. A. van Dura. 1972. “Anamnestic Secretory Antibody Response in Respiratory Secretions of Intranasally Immunized Mice.” Journal of Immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) 109 (November): 1146–48.
Gertler, Paul. 2004. “Do Conditional Cash Transfers Improve Child Health? Evidence from PROGRESA\(\prime\)s Control Randomized Experiment.” American Economic Review 94 (2): 336–41. https://doi.org/10.1257/0002828041302109.
Gertler, Paul J., Sebastian Martinez, Patrick Premand, Laura B. Rawlings, and Christel M. J. Vermeersch. 2016. Impact Evaluation in Practice, Second Edition. Washington, DC: Inter-American Development Bank; World Bank. https://doi.org/10.1596/978-1-4648-0779-4.
Hamory, Joan, Edward Miguel, Michael Walker, Michael Kremer, and Sarah Baird. 2021. “Twenty-Year Economic Impacts of Deworming.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118 (14). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2023185118.
Heckman, James J, and Jeffrey A Smith. 1995. “Assessing the Case for Social Experiments.” Journal of Economic Perspectives 9 (2): 85–110. https://doi.org/10.1257/jep.9.2.85.
Kuchenbecker, Judith, Anika Reinbott, Beatrice Mtimuni, Michael B. Krawinkel, and Irmgard Jordan. 2017. “Nutrition Education Improves Dietary Diversity of Children 6-23 Months at Community-Level: Results from a Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial in Malawi.” PLOS ONE 12 (4): e0175216. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0175216.
Lakner, Christoph, and Branko Milanovic. 2015. “Global Income Distribution from the Fall of the Berlin Wall to the Great Recession.” Revista de Economı́a Institucional 17 (32): 71–128.
Lovelock, J. E. 1971. “Atmospheric Fluorine Compounds as Indicators of Air Movements.” Nature 230 (5293): 379–79. https://doi.org/10.1038/230379a0.
Matejka, Justin, and George Fitzmaurice. 2017. Same Stats, Different Graphs: Generating Datasets with Varied Appearance and Identical Statistics through Simulated Annealing.
Miguel, Edward, and Michael Kremer. 2004. “Worms: Identifying Impacts on Education and Health in the Presence of Treatment Externalities.” Econometrica 72 (1): 159–217. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0262.2004.00481.x.
Molina, Mario J., and F. S. Rowland. 1974. “Stratospheric Sink for Chlorofluoromethanes: Chlorine Atom-Catalysed Destruction of Ozone.” Nature 249 (5460): 810–12. https://doi.org/10.1038/249810a0.
Neyman, Jerzy, and Egon Sharpe Pearson. 1933. “IX. On the Problem of the Most Efficient Tests of Statistical Hypotheses.” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London., 289–337.
Palmquist, Raymond B. 1989. “Land as a Differentiated Factor of Production: A Hedonic Model and Its Implications for Welfare Measurement.” Land Economics 65 (1): 23. https://doi.org/10.2307/3146260.
Ritter, Matthias, Silke Hüttel, Martin Odening, and Stefan Seifert. 2020. “Revisiting the Relationship Between Land Price and Parcel Size in Agriculture.” Land Use Policy 97 (September): 104771. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.104771.
Roser, Max. 2013. “Global Economic Inequality.” Our World in Data.
Taff, Steven J, and Sanford Weisberg. 2007. “Compensated Short-Term Conservation Restrictions May Reduce Sale Prices.” Appraisal Journal 75 (1).
Thompson, Steven K. 2012. Sampling. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118162934.
Todaro, Michael, and Stephen C. Smith. 2014. Economic Development. 11th ed. Pearson.
Weisberg, Sanford. 2005. Applied Linear Regression. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1002/0471704091.
Wilke, Claus O. 2019. Fundamentals of Data Visualization: A Primer on Making Informative and Compelling Figures. O’Reilly Media.
Wooldridge, M. Jeffrey. 2020. Introductory Econometrics: A Modern Approach. South-Western. https://www.cengage.uk/shop/isbn/9781337558860.