The Effect : An Introduction to Research Design and Causality (Hardcover, 2 ed)

Introduction? ?Finding Stuff in this Book? ?Part I.?The Design of Research? ?1 Designing Research? ?2 Research Questions? ?3 Describing Variables? ?4 Describing Relationships? ?5 Identification? ?6 Causal Diagrams? ?7 Drawing Causal Diagrams? ?8 Causal Paths and Closing Back Doors? ?9 Finding Front Doors? ?10 Treatment Effects? ?11 Causality with Less Modeling? ?Part II. The Toolbox? ?12 Opening the Toolbox? ?13 Regression? ?14 Matching? ?15 Simulation? ?16 Fixed Effects? ?17 Event Studies? ?18 Difference-in-Differences? ?19 Instrumental Variables? ?20 Regression Discontinuity? ?21 Partial Identification? ?22 A Gallery of Rogues: Other Methods? ?23 Under the Rug? ?Bibliography? ?Index