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CausalLab: Research Design Workshop

Interactive simulation where students design causal inference strategies for 6 research questions, choosing from RCTs, difference-in-differences, regression discontinuity, instrumental variables, and synthetic control methods while evaluating internal validity, external validity, feasibility, and ethical concerns.

6 rounds Executive English, Español

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Who it is for

An advanced simulation for participants used to working with the main frameworks and trade-offs of the subject, designed for executive education and experienced professionals.

How a session runs

The instructor creates a session from the Eureka dashboard and invites the participants.
Participants play 6 rounds. In each one they submit their decisions and the simulation calculates the results.
The simulation can be run in English, Español.
The instructor follows each participant's progress and results from the dashboard, and uses the class results for the debrief.

Decisions participants make

The decisions participants make during the simulation:

Identification Strategy
Sample Size
Treatment Definition (brief)
Primary Threat to Validity

What participants track

What participants follow on screen as the rounds go by:

Research Question
Your Research Design
Design Evaluation

Subjects covered

Designed for courses in Research Methods.

Causal Inference & Experimental Methods

CausalLab: Research Design Workshop

Who it is for

How a session runs

Decisions participants make

What participants track

Subjects covered

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