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Causal Inference The Mixtape - 4 Potential Outcomes Causal Model

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Practical questions about causation have been a preoccupation of economists for several centuries. Adam Smith wrote about the causes of the wealth of nations (Smith 2003). Karl Marx was interested in the transition of society from capitalism to socialism (Needleman and Needleman 1969). In the twentieth century the Cowles Commission sought to better understand identifying causal parameters (Heckman and Vytlacil 2007).1 Economists have been wrestling with both the big ideas around causality and the development of useful empirical tools from day one. We can see the development of the modern concepts of causality in the writings of several philosophers. Hume (1993) described causation as a sequence of temporal events in which, had the first event not occurred, subsequent ones would not either. For example, he said: “We may define a cause to be an object, followed by another, and where all the objects similar to the first are followed by objects similar to the second. Or in other words wher

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