ECON 109EAdvanced Sequence: Applied Empirical Economics
Economics · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Advanced study covering empirical methods for causal inference in microeconomic research, with emphasis on identification strategies used when randomized experiments are infeasible. Covers topics drawn from regression discontinuity designs, instrumental variables, difference-in-differences, matching methods, and panel data techniques and other approaches to establishing causal relationships from observational data. Students analyze the theoretical foundations of each method alongside seminal empirical studies, evaluating the assumptions, advantages, and limitations inherent to different identification strategies. Integrates applications from a range of applied microeconomic fields that demonstrate practical implementation.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Winter 2026
- Winter 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisites: courses 103, 103L.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
ECON 109E
- ECON 103Introduction to Econometrics
- ECON 103LEconometrics Laboratory
- STATS 100AIntroduction to Probability
- MATH 170SIntroduction to Probability and Statistics 2: Statistics
- STATS 100BIntroduction to Mathematical Statistics
2 direct requisites. Showing 28 courses over 3 levels; the branches marked with a count carry on past it. Every course here opens its own tree.
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