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Unconfoundedness, conditional independence, and ignorable treatment assignment

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May 13, 2023
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What’s the difference between unconfoundedness and ignorability? Mathematically, best I can tell, nothing. The phrase conditional independence, which I think Angrist and Pischke used more often or maybe first, is more or less synonyms for both. They all have the same notation:

(y0,y1) _||_ D | X

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