In-Class Activities

• Activity 0: Is it causal?

• Activity 1: Simpson’s Paradox

• Activity 2: Potential Outcomes

• Activity 3: Consistency Examples

• Activity 4: Randomized Experiment Balance and Estimation in Gerber et al. 2008

• Activity 5: Randomized Experiment Ethics

• Activity 6: Causal Graphs

• Activity 7: Stratified Experiments

• Activity 8: Backdoor criterion

• Activity 9: Positivity in Yeager et al. 2019

• Activity 10: Propensity Scores for Overlap and Balance

• Activity 11: Other causal quantities and matching

• Activity 12: Vectorization

• Activity 13: Instrumental Variables

• Activity 14: Compliance status and local average treatment effects

• Activity 15: Regression Discontinuity Designs

• Activity 16: RDD Bandwidths

• Activity 17: Panel data

• Activity 18: Plotting and synthetic controls

• Activity 19: Causal Trees

• Activity 20: Data wrangling with ecological data

• Activity 21: Independence testing for causal discovery