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Duke University

Causal Inference Bootcamp - Your Guide to Experiments

Duke University via YouTube

Overview

This course on causal inference aims to teach learners how to design and analyze experiments to draw causal conclusions. The course covers topics such as controlled experiments, randomized experiments, noncompliance, statistical inference, natural experiments, and issues in experiment design. By the end of the course, students will have gained skills in experiment design, data analysis, and understanding causal relationships. The teaching method includes video lectures and case studies. This course is intended for individuals interested in social sciences, research methodology, data analysis, and causal inference.

Syllabus

Controlled Experiments: Causal Inference Bootcamp.
Randomized Experiments: Causal Inference Bootcamp.
Design of the Oregon Health Experiment: Causal Inference Bootcamp.
Noncompliance in Experiments: Causal Inference Bootcamp.
Reading Avg Treatment Effects & Confidence Intervals: Depression in OHE: Causal Inference Bootcamp.
Reading Avg Treatment Effect & Confidence Interval: Cholesterol in OHE: Causal Inference Bootcamp.
Survey Noncompliance: Causal Inference Bootcamp.
Comparing Survey Nonresponders to Responders: Causal Inference Bootcamp.
Introducing the Perry Preschool Project: Causal Inference Bootcamp.
Perry Preschool: Comparing Educational Attainment Data: Causal Inference Bootcamp.
Perry Preschool: Comparing Preschool's Effects on Crime: Causal Inference Bootcamp.
Perry Preschool: Measuring the Lifetime Cost of Crime: Causal Inference Bootcamp.
Issues with Sample Sizes: Causal Inference Bootcamp.
What is the Point of Statistical Inference?: Causal Inference Bootcamp.
Randomized Controlled Trials: Causal Inference Bootcamp.
Important Issues in Experiment Design These Videos Ignore: Causal Inference Bootcamp.
Common Issues in Experiments: Causal Inference Bootcamp.
Difficulties in Performing Experiments: Causal Inference Bootcamp.
Finding Lifetime Outcomes of Experiments: Causal Inference Bootcamp.
Spillover Effects Among Subjects: Causal Inference Bootcamp.
The Two Kinds of Natural Experiments: Causal Inference Bootcamp.
Resistance to Policy Manipulation in Natural Experiments: Causal Inference Bootcamp.
Finding Data from Natural Experiments: Causal Inference Bootcamp.
Justifying As-If Randomization: Causal Inference Bootcamp.
Analyzing Natural Experiments: Causal Inference Bootcamp.
Analyzing Data from Natural Experiments: Causal Inference Bootcamp.
Giving Property Rights to Squatters: The Effect on Teenage Pregnancy: Causal Inference Bootcamp.
London Cholera Outbreak: Early Data Visualizations.
London Cholera Outbreak: Was it a Natural Experiment?: Causal Inference Bootcamp.
Bounds Analysis for Missing Data: Causal Inference Bootcamp.
Causal Inference Issues in Lab Experiments: Causal Inference Bootcamp.

Taught by

Mod•U: Powerful Concepts in Social Science

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