Syllabus

Textbook

Joshua D. Angrist and  J?rn-Steffen Pischke  (2014)  Mastering 'Metrics: The Path from Cause to Effect

Stephen L. Morgan, & Winship, C. (2014). Counterfactuals and Causal inference. Cambridge University Press (Ch. 1-4 and some other parts will be covered in class)

 

Other Sources

Austin, P. C. (2008). A critical appraisal of propensity‐score matching in the medical literature between 1996 and 2003. Statistics in medicine, 27(12), 2037-2049. https://doi.org/10.1002/sim.3150

Concato, J., Lawler, E. V., Lew, R. A., Gaziano, J. M., Aslan, M., & Huang, G. D. (2010). Observational methods in comparative effectiveness research. The American journal of medicine, 123(12), e16-e23. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjmed.2010.10.004

Heckman, J. J., & Smith, J. A. (1995). Assessing the case for social experiments. The Journal of Economic Perspectives, 9(2), 85-110. https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jep.9.2.85

Kaptchuk, T. J. (2001). The double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial: gold standard or golden calf?. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 54(6), 541-549. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0895-4356(00)00347-4

Stuart, E. A. (2010). Matching methods for causal inference: A review and a look forward. Statistical science, 25(1), 1. https://dx.doi.org/10.1214%2F09-STS313

 

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