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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 18 of the book.
A version of this video without background music can be found here: • Supporting Parallel Tr...
Parallel trends is a key assumption in doing a difference-in-differences analysis. How can we use data to check whether that assumption is plausible and can be trusted? This video goes through a few different ways.