Robust Estimators and Instrumental Variables

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Topics and Objectives (Mar 25 – Mar 29)

• Double robust estimators
• Variance reduction and bias correction the doubly robust estimator
• Bootstrap estimation of the variance
• Instrumental variables
• The Wald estimator and two-stage least squares
• Mendelian randomization

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Lecture Notes

• R Notes: Double Robust Estimator
• R Notes: Instrumental Variables

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Homework

• See Homework 2 for details

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