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The Effect is a book about research design and causal inference. How can we use data to learn about the world? How can we answer questions about whether X causes Y even if we can't run a randomized experiment? The book covers these things and plenty more. These videos are meant to accompany the book, although they can also be viewed on their own.

This video relates to material found in Chapter 21 of the book.

A version of this video without background music can be found here:    • Estimating Heterogeneous Treatment Ef...  

Treatment effects almost always can be expected to vary across different individuals. Are we stuck just getting averages over a wide range of people? No! There are some cool methods, old and new, for estimating how a treatment effect varies across groups.