My paper with Jeff Bloem (IFPRI) and Noah Wexler (UMN, Humphrey School) titled “The Paper of How: Estimating Treatment Effects with the Front-Door Criterion” is now published (and accessible free of charge, thanks to the University of Minnesota libraries covering open access) in the Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics. You can access it here. Here is the abstract, followed by some miscellaneous thoughts about this research project:
Published January 30, 2024