Dear readers,
A month or so ago I posted a substack entry saying that I was going to be starting an online class to teach causal inference. It had been something I had been thinking about for a long time. I got the idea to do it because there has been demand to be perfectly frank. And the more time I spend trying to get better at “explaining econometrics” to myself, the more confident I felt that I could explain it to anyone.
But it wasn’t just that I felt I was getting better at it. I feel like one of the things I’m “supposed to” be doing is putting in my hours of service for the profession. But, I also feel like I’m supposed to be doing for anyone. There are a lot of people in the world who work with data now. And there are a lot of people who are interested in causality. I mean when you think about it — the world is so different than it was 50 years ago in terms of who can do what kinds of empirical research how and on what topics. So much data is available now. A ton of it…
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