Research Design for Observational Studies and Experimental Settings
REQUIRED MATERIALS.
All articles are in a zip file (1.8GB) that can be downloaded from:
The books listed below are required and available at various online bookstores.
To Purchase:
1. Rubin, Donald (2006) Matched Sampling for Causal Effects
2, Guo, Shenyang and Mark W. Fraser (2010) Propensity Score Analysis: Statistical Methods and Applications. Thousand Oaks, CA.: Sage Publishers. (hereinafter called G&F)
Copies of some chapters are available to borrow from Professor McCubbins (I encourage students to buy these books; they are readily available and very useful):
1. Curd and Cover (1998) Philosophy of Science: The Central Issues
2. Imbens and Rubin (2013) Causal Inference in Statistics and Social Sciences [draft] (hereinafter called I&R, including in the ZIP file)
3. Chapters from Trochim and Donnelly (2007) The Research Methods Knowledge Base, 3rd Edition. Atomic Dog. You can get most of Trochim's book here:
4. Chapters from Cameron and Trivedi, Microeconometrics: Models and Applications.