Review econometric identification strategy

Perform causal inference analysis from observational data

Causal inference when observational data and rigorous assumption testing beat correlation studies

• · Observational dataset
• · Treatment/control indicators
• · Confounding variable list

• · Causal effect estimates
• · Confidence intervals
• · Sensitivity analysis
• · Assumption diagnostics

• · Statistical inference library

Observational data loaded; treatment assignment mechanism understood; confounders identified

Unmeasured confounding undetected; assumptions violated; sample size too small; model misspecification

• · Assumption diagnostics provided
• · Sensitivity analysis performed
• · Confidence intervals reported