Preface

POL 346: Applied Quantitative Analysis. These are notes from my Fall 2025 course.

The textbooks for the course were:

Angrist, Joshua D., and Jörn-Steffen Pischke. Mastering’metrics: The path from cause to effect. Princeton university press, 2014.
De Mesquita, Ethan Bueno, and Anthony Fowler. Thinking clearly with data: A guide to quantitative reasoning and analysis. Princeton University Press, 2021.
Salganik, Matthew J. Bit by bit: Social research in the digital age. Princeton University Press, 2019.

Much of the material draws on the textbook for “Data Science for Everyone”, a course I cotaught at NYU.