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Observational Data
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FDS Colloquium: Anay Mehrotra (Yale), “What Makes Treatment Effects Identifiable? Characterizations and Estimators Beyond Unconfoundedness”
Talk summary: Sometimes, like when studying the effects of smoking, it is impossible to run a randomized control trial and we must rely on observational data—where we observe who chose to receive treatment but do not control the assignment of the treatment. This leads to a fundamental challenge: we only see one outcome per individual…
