Class 3: Introduction to Causal Inference

Published

January 24, 2025

Today we’ll introduce the potential outcomes framework. We’ll discuss what this means and what we’ll seek to estimate going forward.

Objectives

  • Explain potential outcomes
  • Derive and explain the average treatment effect
  • Explain the differences between an average treatment effect and the average treatment effect on the treated

Activities

  • Finalize software setup
  • Confirm ability to commit and push changes to GitHub
  • Create your own Medicare Advantage repository and begin working with data for homework 1