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Lesson

Causal Inference

4 October 2022

Lesson Prerequisites

Basic familiarity with impact evaluation and/or randomized controlled trials is useful but not necessary to complete this lesson.

Lesson Materials

Lesson slides

Additional Resources

Running Randomized Evaluations by Rachel Glennerster and Kudzai Takavarasha (book and website)
J-PAL teaching resources on randomized evaluations and threats to internal validity
World Bank DIME Wiki on Experimental Methods
World Bank DIME Wiki on Quasi-Experimental Methods
World Bank Impact Evaluation in Practice
J-PAL chart on impact evaluation methods

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