E Introductory Reading at The Lab @ DC

• Two short sets of notes introducing the basic ideas of the Rubin causal model, potential outcomes, the fundamental problem of causal inference, and why we do experiments:
  • Notes: Potential Outcomes
  • Notes: Experiments and Observational Designs
• A paper on how to design observational causal studies:
  • Rubin 2007
• A canonical paper on the “two cultures” of social science modeling and data science approaches:
  • Breiman 2001