Flux Symposium 2026
- 1 minIdentifying Causal Mechanisms in Neurodevelopment and Mental Health
Sylvia Lin, Kathryn Bates, & Floor Vandecruys
Slide Deck:
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
Other relevant literature
- 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