Threats to validity

Content for Monday, September 27, 2021

Readings

Slides

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Videos

Videos for each section of the lecture are available at this YouTube playlist.

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In-class stuff

Here are all the materials we’ll use in class:


  1. Guido W. Imbens, “Statistical Significance, p-Values, and the Reporting of Uncertainty,” Journal of Economic Perspectives 35, no. 3, Summer (2021): 157–74, doi:10.1257/jep.35.3.157. ↩︎

  2. Paul J. Gertler et al., Impact Evaluation in Practice, 2nd ed. (Inter-American Development Bank; World Bank, 2016), https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/25030. ↩︎

  3. Nick Huntington-Klein, The Effect: An Introduction to Research Design and Causality (Boca Raton, Florida: Chapman and Hall / CRC, 2021), https://theeffectbook.net/. ↩︎