2025 Methods Lecture, Raj Chetty and Kosuke Imai, "Uncovering Causal Mechanisms: Mediation Analysis and Surrogate Indices"
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Background materials on mediation
Imai, Kosuke, Dustin Tingley, and Teppei Yamamoto. (2013). “Experimental Designs for Identifying Causal Mechanisms.'' Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, Vol. 176, No. 1 (January), pp. 5-51.
Imai, Kosuke, Luke Keele, and Teppei Yamamoto. (2010). “Identification, Inference, and Sensitivity Analysis for Causal Mediation Effects.'' Statistical Science, Vol. 25, No. 1 (February), pp. 51-71.
Huber, Martin. Mediation Analysis. Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics 1-38, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57365-6_162-2
Background materials on surrogate indices
Susan Athey, Raj Chetty, Guido W. Imbens & Hyunseung Kang. “The Surrogate Index: Combining Short-Term Proxies to Estimate Long-Term Treatment Effects More Rapidly and Precisely.” (NBER Working Paper 26463) forthcoming Review of Economic Studies.
Susan Athey, Raj Chetty, Guido W. Imbens. (2025). “The Experimental Selection Correction Estimator: Using Experiments to Remove Biases in Observational Estimates.” (NBER Working Paper 33817)
Rambachan, Ashesh, Rahul Singh, Davide Viviano (2024). “Program Evaluation with Remotely Sensed Outcomes.” arXiv preprint arXiv:2411:10959
Supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant #G-2023-19633, the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation grant #20251294 , and the National Science Foundation grant #2314841
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