Counterfactuals and DAGs I

Readings due before class on Monday, September 23, 2019

Required

• Chapter 3 in Impact Evaluation in PracticePaul J. Gertler et al., Impact Evaluation in Practice, 2nd ed. (Inter-American Development Bank; World Bank, 2016), https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/25030.
  
  
• “Directed acyclical graphs” in Causal Inference: The MixtapeScott Cunningham, Causal Inference: The Mixtape, 2018, https://www.scunning.com/mixtape.html.
  
  
• Julia M. Rohrer, “Thinking Clearly About Correlations and Causation: Graphical Causal Models for Observational Data”Julia M. Rohrer, “Thinking Clearly About Correlations and Causation: Graphical Causal Models for Observational Data,” Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science 1, no. 1 (March 2018): 27–42, doi:10.1177/2515245917745629.
  
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• Other readings TBA