Causation

Lecture Slides Lecture Slides (pdf)

Tutorial Exercise Tutorial Exercise (pdf)

Required Readings

• Chs 13 Mesquita and Fowler 2021
• Paul W. Holland. 1986. “Statistics and Causal Inference.” Journal of the American Statistical Association 81 (396): 945–960.

Additional Readings

• Luke Keele. 2015. “The Statistics of Causal Inference: A View from Political Methodology.” Political Analysis 23 (3): 313–335.
• David Lewis. 1973. “Causation.” The Journal of Philosophy 70 (17): 556–567.

Tutorial

• Difference-in-difference analysis