Topic 4: Causal Inference

Material covered in class

• Notes

• The material for this part of the class is not covered in the textbook.

Additional material

• This section provides an introductions to causal inference particularly in settings with observational. In addition it will cover (i) interpreting regressions under unconfoundedness but with treatment effect heterogeneity and (ii) alternative estimation procedures that may work better if there is treatment effect heterogeneity.