Causality
Readings
- AP1 Chapter 3
- AP2 Chapter 2
- C Chapters 3,4
- CT Chapter 2
- HA Chapter 2
- HK Chapters 5,6,7,8,9,10,11
- K Chapter 3
- SW Chapter 4
- W1 Chapters 2,4
- W2 Chapter 3
Slides
The slides are embedded in this page, and you can scroll through them with the arrow keys. If you prefer you can instead pop them out in a new window
Videos
This is a lecture from (recent Nobel Prize winner) Joshua Angrist explaining these same ideas as part of a lecture series from the American Economics Association (no preview available). View video
Tutorials
The .zip file below contains the files to run a learnr interactive tutorial. To use it, first ensure that you have installed the learnr and shiny packages. Then, download the file, unpack it, open the .Rmd file in RStudio, and click “run document.”
There is also a plain, non-interactive PDF version of the file below.
Other Resources
daggity.net - Website where you can create and analyze DAGs. Will help you determine whether you can identify direct effects by controlling for variables in a model. Also tells you testable model implications and gives code to plot DAG in R.