Detecting and Reducing Model Dependence in Causal Inference

The lecture slides are here and the handout for one-page-at-a-time (color) printing is here.

Lecture 7

"Detecting and Reducing Model Dependence in Causal Inference" covers the following topics:

  1. Detecting Model Dependence
  2. Matching to Reduce Model Dependence
  3. Three Matching Methods
  4. Problems with Propensity Score Matching
  5. The Matching Frontier