DAGs and potential outcomes

Readings

• 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
• Chapters 8, 9, and 10 in The Effect²

Potential outcomes, ATEs, and CATEs example page

• The example page on potential outcomes, ATEs, and CATEs shows how to use R to calculate ATEs and CATEs

Slides

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• Introduction
• do()ing observational causal inference
• Potential outcomes

Videos

Videos for each section of the lecture are available at this YouTube playlist.

• Introduction
• do()ing observational causal inference
• Potential outcomes

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

In-class stuff

Here are all the materials we’ll use in class:

• Session 5 FAQ slides (PDF)