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Omitted Variables versus Replicating the RCT

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scott cunningham
Jul 28, 2025
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I am at the Northwestern causal inference workshop this week and today Don Rubin spoke. He’s giving a lecture about potential outcomes, randomization and subtle concepts about observational studies. And he said something today that I thought I wanted to bring up on my substack. It has to do with how economists think about covariates as serving the pur…

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