TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cunningham,Scott
TI  - Causal inference: the mixtape 
SN  - 9780300251685
AV  - Q175.32 .C38C86 2021
U1  - 300.72 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - London
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - Causation
KW  - Inference
KW  - Dependence (Statistics)
KW  - Social sciences
KW  - Methodology
KW  - Data processing
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 541-553) and index; Mathematics, Physics and Statistics; Economics
N2  - An accessible and contemporary introduction to the methods for determining cause and effect in the social sciences Causal inference encompasses the tools that allow social scientists to determine what causes what. Economists--who generally can't run controlled experiments to test and validate their hypotheses--apply these tools to observational data to make connections. In a messy world, causal inference is what helps establish the causes and effects of the actions being studied, whether the impact (or lack thereof) of increases in the minimum wage on employment, the effects of early childhood education on incarceration later in life, or the introduction of malaria nets in developing regions on economic growth. Scott Cunningham introduces students and practitioners to the methods necessary to arrive at meaningful answers to the questions of causation, using a range of modeling techniques and coding instructions for both the R and Stata programming languages. - -
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