Part 1: A Selected History of Quantitative Causal Inference

The Extraordinary Role of Data Workers and Data Theorists at Princeton and Harvard

This is Part 1 in a three part substack that I am calling “A Selected History of Quantitative Causal Inference”. I had previously had all of it in one super long scroll, but I think it’s better to break it up into three parts so it’s more digestible. This first part discusses the philosophical and statistical origins of the potential outcomes model, a…