Other Standard Research Designs (The Effect, Videos on Causality, Ep 65)

Please visit https://www.theeffectbook.net to read The Effect online for free, or find links to purchase a physical copy or ebook.

The Effect is a book about research design and causal inference. How can we use data to learn about the world? How can we answer questions about whether X causes Y even if we can't run a randomized experiment? The book covers these things and plenty more. These videos are meant to accompany the book, although they can also be viewed on their own.

This video relates to material found in Chapter 21 (first edition) or Chapter 22 (second edition) of the book.

A version of this video without background music can be found here: https://youtu.be/oye6Tp47jJc

Who says we need to stop there? We've covered a number of "standard" template designs like difference-in-differences and regression discontinuity. But there are others! We won't have time to go into them in detail, but here's a quick rundown of some other causal inference designs that are widely applicable but you might not have heard of before.