The causal revolution

Content for Thursday, January 11, 2024

Readings

• The Taboo Against Explicit Causal Inference in Nonexperimental Psychology (Grosz, Rohrer, and Thoemmes 2020)
• Chapters 4-7 in The Effect (Huntington-Klein 2021)
• Chapter 3 in Impact Evaluation in Practice (Gertler et al. 2016)

Videos

Please watch the following from this YouTube playlist.

• Econometrics: The Path from Cause to Effect
• Ceteris Paribus: Public vs. Private University
• Selection Bias: Will You Make More Going to a Private University?

You can also watch the playlist (and skip around to different sections) here:

Slides

On the day of class, you will find my slides on Canvas.

References

Gertler, Paul J., Sebastian Martinez, Patrick Premand, Laura B. Rawlings, and Christel M. J. Vermeersch. 2016. Impact Evaluation in Practice. 2nd ed. Inter-American Development Bank; World Bank. https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/25030.

Grosz, Michael P., Julia M. Rohrer, and Felix Thoemmes. 2020. “The Taboo Against Explicit Causal Inference in Nonexperimental Psychology.” Perspectives on Psychological Science 15 (5): 1243–55. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691620921521.

Huntington-Klein, Nick. 2021. The Effect: An Introduction to Research Design and Causality. Boca Raton, Florida: Chapman and Hall / CRC. https://theeffectbook.net/.