slides
Background materials on mediation
Imai, Kosuke, Dustin Tingley, and Teppei Yamamoto. (2013). “Experimental
Designs for Identifying Causal Mechanisms.'' Journal of the Royal
Statistical Society, Series A, Vol. 176, No. 1 (January), pp. 5-51.
Imai, Kosuke, Luke Keele, and Teppei Yamamoto. (2010). “Identification,
Inference, and Sensitivity Analysis for Causal Mediation Effects.''
Statistical Science, Vol. 25, No. 1 (February), pp. 51-71.
Huber, Martin. Mediation Analysis. Handbook of Labor, Human Resources
and Population Economics
<https://link.springer.com/referencework/10.1007/978-3-319-57365-6> pp
1-38, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57365-6_162-2
Background materials on surrogate indices
Susan Athey, Raj Chetty, Guido W. Imbens & Hyunseung Kang. “The
Surrogate Index: Combining Short-Term Proxies to Estimate Long-Term
Treatment Effects More Rapidly and Precisely.” forthcoming Review of
Economic Studies. https://doi.org/10.3386/w26463
Susan Athey, Raj Chetty, Guido W. Imbens. (2025). “The Experimental
Selection Correction Estimator: Using Experiments to Remove Biases in
Observational Estimates.” NBER Working Paper No. 33817.
https://www.nber.org/papers/w33817
Rambachan, Ashesh, Rahul Singh, Davide Viviano (2024). “Program
Evaluation with Remotely Sensed Outcomes.” arXiv preprint
arXiv:2411:10959