2 - Potential Outcomes (Week 2)

In the second week of the Introduction to Causal Inference online course, we cover potential outcomes. Please post questions in the YouTube comments section.

Introduction to Causal Inference Course Website: causalcourse.com

0:00 Intro
0:22 Outline
0:56 What Are Potential Outcomes?
4:07 The Fundamental Problem of Causal Inference
8:17 Association is Not Causation and Why
15:38 Ignorability / Exchangeability
20:41 Identifiability and Randomized Control Trials
24:35 Conditional Exchangeability and the Adjustment Formula
28:58 Positivity/Overlap and Extrapolation
38:08 No Interference and Consistency
41:17 Tying It All Together
42:54 Estimands, Estimates, and the Identification-Estimation Flowchart
45:32 A Complete Example with Estimation
53:36 Outro