Slides
Project Ideas
The Team and General Idea for your final project is due Thursday, 19 March (ready to present in class that day).
Your team should be prepared to present a few slides with:
- Name of your project
- List of your team members
- Purpose of your project: how it satisfies the four project desiderata
- What you plan to do
- What you hope the outcome will be
Links
Here are links to some of the ideas and resources I presented in class.
Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma (William Press and Feemman Dyson). See also The Prisoner’s Dilemma, Freeman Dyson, IAS, 2012.
Teacher Effects on Student Achievement and Height: A Cautionary Tale (Marianne Bitler, Sean Corcoran, Thurston Domina, Emily Penner), NBER 2019.
Health Insurance and Mortality: Experimental Evidence from Taxpayer Outreach (Jacob Goldin, Ithai Z. Lurie, Janet McCubbin), NBER 2019.
Stagnation and Scientific Incentives (Jay Bhattacharya, Mikko Packalen), NBER 2020. (Didn’t talk about this one.)
Google Ads Keywords (requires Google Ads account)
Yelp privacy (contact us for more information on this, as well as access to the dataset)
Harvard admissions lawsuit: Peter Arcidiacono’s expert report (for “Students for Fair Admissions”) David Card’s expert report (for Harvard)
Poverty Action Lab (Data Sets)
COVID-19: there is lots of data available, and more being produced every hour. OurWorldInData is a good collection of resources. Also recommend reading: Response to COVID-19 in Taiwan Big Data Analytics, New Technology, and Proactive Testing.
FCC Spectrum Auctions, Collusive Bidding: Lessons from the FCC Spectrum Auctions (Peter Cramton and Jesse Schwartz, 2000).