Program evaluation and causal inference with R

Georgia State University
aheiss@gsu.edu

Materials

All the materials for today’s workshop are accessible in this RStudio.cloud workspace. You’ll be able to run R and RStudio directly from your browser and you don’t need to install anything on your computer.

You can also download a .zip file of all the materials here:

• 03_causal-inference.zip

Slides

Here are the slides for the different sections of today’s workshop:

• 0: Introduction (PDF)
• 1: DAGs and the causal revolution (PDF)
• 2: Causation and RCTs (PDF)
• 3: Causation, regression, and matching (PDF)
• 4: Causation and difference-in-differences (PDF)
• 4: Causation and regression discontinuity designs (PDF)