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Causal Inference The Mixtape - 1  Introduction

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My path to economics was not linear. I didn’t major in economics, for instance. I didn’t even take an economics course in college. I majored in English, for Pete’s sake. My ambition was to become a poet. But then I became intrigued with the idea that humans can form plausible beliefs about causal effects even without a randomized experiment. Twenty-five years ago, I wouldn’t have had a clue what that sentence even meant, let alone how to do such an experiment. So how did I get here? Maybe you would like to know how I got to the point where I felt I needed to write this book. The TL;DR version is that I followed a windy path from English to causal inference.1 First, I fell in love with economics. Then I fell in love with empirical research. Then I noticed that a growing interest in causal inference had been happening in me the entire time. But let me tell the longer version. I majored in English at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville and graduated with a serious ambition to become

1 Introduction – <span style='font-weight: 700'>Causal Inference</span><br/> <i style='color: #00b7ff'>The Mixtape</i> Causal Inference: The Mixtape. Buy the print version today: Buy from Amazon Buy from Yale Press My path to economics was not linear. I didn’t major in economics, for instance. I didn’t even take an economics course in college. I majored in English, for Pete’s sake. My ambition was to become a poet. But then I became intrigued with the idea that humans can form plausible beliefs about causal effects even without a randomized experiment. Twenty-five years ago, I wouldn’t have ha

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