PS200C: Causal Inference for the Social Sciences
Class: MW 2:00–3:15 PM, Bunche 2160 Section: Thursday 9:00–9:50 AM, on Zoom
Professor: Chad Hazlett — chazlett@ucla.edu Office Hours: Wednesday 3:30–4:45 PM and by appointment, Bunche 3264
Teaching Assistant: Barney Chen — barneychen@ucla.edu Office Hours: Mondays 5 PM at Bunche 3244 and by appointment
Course website: https://chadhazlett.github.io/ps200c-2026/ Announcements: BruinLearn — make sure you are receiving notifications.
This course covers the core methods of causal inference used in the social sciences: potential outcomes, randomized experiments, selection on observables, difference-in-differences, instrumental variables, sensitivity analysis, regression discontinuity, and DAGs/structural causal models.