Materials for Causal Policy Evaluation Workshop

This webpage contains all the materials for a one-day workshop on causal impact assessment. The materials on this website are CC-BY-4.0 licensed.

Lecture and lab materials for the SIKS course on causal inference, session on causal policy evaluation, May 31 2023.

Instructions for participants

This session has a lecture and lab part.

• The lecture slides are provided in .pdf format.
• The lab exercises are to be completed using R, and provided in .html format.
• You can install all the R packages necessary for the exercises by running setup.R

We recommend you download all materials into a single folder, create a new R project, and complete the exercises by either coding yourself, or copy-pasting the code snippets provided into R.

These materials are in part based on materials developed for the ODISSEI Social Data Science (SoDa) team by Oisin Ryan and Erik-Jan van Kesteren. You can find the full materials here.