DAGs and potential outcomes
Read before class on Wednesday, February 12, 2020
Required
- Prologue and at least one of the four acts from This American Life, “Gardens of Branching Paths,” episode #691, January 10, 2020
- Chapter 3 in Impact Evaluation in Practice1
- “Potential outcomes causal model” in Causal Inference: The Mixtape2
Paul J. Gertler et al., Impact Evaluation in Practice, 2nd ed. (Inter-American Development Bank; World Bank, 2016), https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/25030.↩︎
Scott Cunningham, Causal Inference: The Mixtape, 2018, https://www.scunning.com/mixtape.html.↩︎