Five Questions About Matching (The Effect, Videos on Causality, Ep. 36)

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The Effect is a book about research design and causal inference. How can we use data to learn about the world? How can we answer questions about whether X causes Y even if we can't run a randomized experiment? The book covers these things and plenty more. These videos are meant to accompany the book, although they can also be viewed on their own.
This video relates to material found in Chapter 14 of the book.
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Matching - picking two comparable groups so that you can compare them - is a neat idea. But how do you actually do it? Turns out there are a lot of decisions to make along the way. Here are five things you'll have to make decisions on when actually performing an estimation with matching.

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