Slides for the Seattle University Causal Inference Class
This class follows my textbook The Effect: An Introduction to Research Design and Causality, for which the first half is currently available online, although additional chapters will be available soon.
It also makes use of my series of Videos on Causality, with the note that these videos cover causal concepts but not estimation - they don't even use regression. The class does use regression.
Lecture 2: Describing Relationships
Lecture 4: Identification (Agan and Starr paper)
Lecture 7b: Causal Concepts Review (Brief)
Lecture 9: Difference-in-Differences
Lecture 10: Difference-in-Differences Estimation
Lecture 11: Kessler and Roth Paper Discussion (Kessler and Roth Paper)
Lecture 12: Regression Discontinuity
Lecture 13: Estimating Regression Discontinuity
Lecture 14: Zimmerman Paper Discussion (Zimmerman Paper)
Lecture 15: Instrumental Variables
Lecture 16: Instrumental Variables in Action
Lecture 17: Case Methods (event studies and synthetic control)
Lecture 19: Methods for Heterogeneous Treatment Effects, and Midterm Review