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Social sciences workshop for early career researchers at IFS

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Michael Becker hält vor einer Gruppe von Personen eine Workshop © Yi-Jhen Wu​/​IFS

"Experiments, quasi-experiments, and causality in social sciences: Matching methods" – Methods workshop for early career researchers.

On 26 April , Professor Michael Becker held the workshop "Experiments, quasi-experiments, and causality in social sciences: Matching methods" as an open offer for early career researchers at TU Dortmund University. The event is part of the IFS advanced curriculum and aims to provide in-depth knowledge of quantitative methods. The aim of the workshop was to deepen the considerations on causality issues in observational studies using propensity score analyses. The Rubin Causal Model (RCM) served as a basis and was used to work out and discuss epistemic similarities and differences between experiments and observational studies. The workshop aimed to enhance early career researchers' understanding of causal analyses.