The promise of genes for understanding cause and effect [Social Sciences]

The Search for Identification Since the 1980s, social scientists have become increasingly interested in how to make credible claims about cause and effect using observational data (1). Ignited by seminal papers demonstrating the promise of natural experiments (2), the causal revolution has put social scientists on the lookout for "as-if"...

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