Natural experiments: A Nobel Prize awarded research design for strengthening causal inference on global health challenges
Famke J. M. Mölenberg, Francisca Vargas Lopes
Abstract
We would like to congratulate David Card, Joshua Angrist and Guido Imbens for winning the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences 2021 for their pioneering work on natural experiments [1]. The committee acknowledged their work for “… shifting the focus in empirical research using observational data towards relying on quasi-experimental variation to establish causal effects.” […]
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Causal inferenceNatural (archaeology)InferenceEngineering ethicsData sciencePsychologyManagement scienceMedicineComputer scienceEngineeringArtificial intelligenceBiologyPathologyPaleontologyAdvanced Causal Inference Techniques