Flux Symposium 2026
- 2 minsIdentifying Causal Mechanisms in Neurodevelopment and Mental Health
Sylvia Lin
A Randomised Controlled Trial on the Impact of Parenting on Adolescent Emotion Regulation-Related Brain Function and Mental Health
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Kathryn Bates
Testing the impact of cash transfers on youth using ABCD
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Floor Vandecruys
Schooling drives neurocognitive development
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Relevant literature
- Bailey, D. H., Jung, A. J., Beltz, A. M., Eronen, M. I., Gische, C., Hamaker, E. L., Kording, K. P., Lebel, C., Lindquist, M. A., Moeller, J., Razi, A., Rohrer, J. M., Zhang, B., & Murayama, K. (2024). Causal inference on human behaviour. Nature Human Behaviour, 8(8), 1448–1459.pdf
- Anvari, F., Kievit, R., Lakens, D., Pennington, C. R., Przybylski, A. K., Tiokhin, L., Wiernik, B. M., & Orben, A. (2022). Not All Effects Are Indispensable: Psychological Science Requires Verifiable Lines of Reasoning for Whether an Effect Matters. Perspectives on Psychological Science: A Journal of the Association for Psychological Science, 17456916221091565. pdf
- Lundberg, I., Johnson, R., & Stewart, B. M. (2021). What Is Your Estimand? Defining the Target Quantity Connects Statistical Evidence to Theory. American Sociological Review, 86(3), 532–565 pdf
- Schwartz, G. L., & Maria Glymour, M. (2023). Bridging the Divide: Tackling Tensions Between Life-Course Epidemiology and Causal Inference. Annual Review of Developmental Psychology, 5(Volume 5, 2023), 355–374. pdf
Open-source causal inference literature
Text books
Good book to start:
- The effect: an introduction to research design and causality by Nick Huntington-Klein.
Middle road
- Causal Inference: The Mixtape by Scott Cunningham.
More advanced:
- Causal Inference: What if? by Miguel Hernan & James Robins.
Applied methods PhD course by Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham
- github
- Cattaneo, M. D., Idrobo, N., & Titiunik, R. (2019). A practical introduction to regression discontinuity designs: Foundations. pdf
- Cattaneo, M. D., Idrobo, N., & Titiunik, R. (2023). A Practical Introduction to Regression Discontinuity Designs: Extensions. pdf