Staaaaaaaaaan/mixtape-code

Code for Causal Inference: The Mixtape by Scott Cunningham

Overview

This repo provides replication code for the book “Casual Inference: The Mixtape” by Scott Cunningham.

Chapters

• Properties of regression

• Directed acyclical graphs

• Potential outcomes causal model

• Matching and subclassification

• Regression discontinuity

• Instrumental variables

• Panel data

• Differences-in-differences

• Synthetic control

Packages

Most of the code relies on the following packages; note these are not explicitly loaded in the code chunks.

# tidyverse and tidyverse-adjacent
library(magrittr)
library(hms)
library(stringr)
library(lubridate)
library(forcats)
library(feather)
library(haven)
library(httr)
library(jsonlite)
library(readxl)
library(xml2)
library(rvest)
library(modelr)
library(broom)
library(blob)
library(dbplyr)
library(purrrlyr)
library(tidyverse)

# summary statistics
library(skimr)

# datasets
library(mixtape)

# figure styling
library(hrbrthemes)

# table styling
library(stargazer)