6.6 Natural experiments: Basics

• Assumption: “a real world situation that produces haphazard assignment to a treatment” (Rosenbaum 2010, 67)
• Q: Can you think of/have you heard of any examples?
• Q: Advantages and disadvantages of this design? What does it allow us to study, what does it not allow to study?

References

Rosenbaum, Paul R. 2010. Design of Observational Studies. Springer Series in Statistics. New York, NY: Springer New York.