A comprehensive and cutting-edge introduction to quantitative methods of causal analysis, including new trends in machine learning.
A comprehensive and cutting-edge introduction to quantitative methods of causal analysis, including new trends in machine learning.
Reasoning about cause and effect-the consequence of doing one thing versus another-is an integral part of our lives as human beings. In an increasingly digital and data-driven economy, the importance of sophisticated causal analysis only deepens.
Presenting the most important quantitative methods for evaluating causal effects, this textbook provides graduate students and researchers with a clear and comprehensive introduction to the causal analysis of empirical data. Martin Huber's accessible approach highlights the intuition and motivation behind various methods while also providing formal discussions of key concepts using statistical notation. Causal Analysis covers several methodological developments not covered in other texts, including new trends in machine learning, the evaluation of interaction or interference effects, and recent research designs such as bunching or kink designs.
Most complete and cutting-edge introduction to causal analysis, including causal machine learning
Clean presentation of rigorous material avoids extraneous detail and emphasizes conceptual analogies over statistical notation Supplies a range of applications and practical examples using R
By:
Martin Huber
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 178mm,
Weight: 369g
ISBN: 9780262545914
ISBN 10: 0262545918
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 05 September 2023
Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
1 Introduction 1 2 Causality and No Causality 11 3 Social Experiments and Linear Regression 19 4 Selection on Observables 65 5 Casual Machine Learning 137 6 Instrumental Variables 169 7 Difference-in-Differences 195 8 Synthetic Controls 219 9 Regression Discontinuity, Kink, and Bunching Designs 231 10 Partial Identification and Sensitivity Analysis 255 11 Treatment Evaluation under Interference Effects 271 12 Conclusion 285 References 287 Index 311
Martin Huber is Professor of Applied Econometrics at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, where his research comprises both methodological and applied contributions in the fields of causal analysis and policy evaluation, machine learning, statistics, econometrics, and empirical economics.
- Short-listed for PROSE Award - Computing & Information Sciences.
