The College of Economics, Law and Government would like to respectfully invite lecturers/ researchers to come and share your experiences at the CELG seminar:

• Topic: Impact Evaluation Using Synthetic Control Method
• Presenter: Dr. Dang Dinh Thang, UEH & University of Turku, Finland
• Time: 09:AM, Thursday, November 21, 2024
• Location: B1-1001, UEH Campus B, 279 Nguyen Tri Phuong, District 10

Mini lecture: Impact Evaluation Using Synthetic Control Method

Overall aim: This lecture aims to introduce the synthetic control method, which is among the key methods that is growingly applied to causal inference in social sciences and economics. The synthetic control method is a statistical approach used to estimate treatment effects in comparative case studies. It constructs a synthetic version of the treated units by assigning weights to variables and observations in the control group. The lecture will provide fundamental knowledge about the method including its setup, data, and application, especially the potential for doing research using Vietnamese data and policy context.

Participants: Lecturers, PhD researchers, and master students

Length: 2.5 hours

Prerequisites: Basic econometrics, Stata skills

About presenter:

Thang Dang is a Labor and Applied Micro-Economist with research interests in education and health inequalities, social mobility, immigrant and refugee integration, and family spillovers of policy interventions. His research aims to inform relevant policy policies and interventions in order to improve the well-being of the most vulnerable groups within society and to reduce social inequalities. His research has been published in Labour Economics, the Journal of Health Economics among other peer-reviewed journals. Thang Dang is currently a Senior Researcher at the INVEST Research Flagship Centre, University of Turku, Finland. He is also a Research Affiliate at the EfD-Vietnam, University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. He received a PhD in Economics from the University of York and a Master’s Degree in Economics from Victoria University of Wellington.

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