Foundations of casual inference

Course Description

This year, we will consider causal inference in settings with interference. The course will be discussion-based and require that the student actively participate. Each week, the discussion will be organized around one paper, or sometimes a book chapter. Everybody is expected to have read the paper carefully before the session.

Evaluation 

To encourage participation and active learning, students will be required to actively present material in class and write one report, both will count towards the final degree.

The first article is of important historical interest, because it is considered to be one of the first (serious) articles on interference. Thus, this article has inspired many other contributions. Yet, you don't need to agree with everything the authors write!

We expected all participants to understand the basics of causal graphs, in particular causal DAGs.