Natural Experiments in the Social Sciences: A Design-Based Approach (Strategies for Social Inquiry)

This is an easy book that is short, concise and easy to comprehend. Can also be used as an index of important natural experiment cases.

Causal inference texts are still rare, and this text fills a needed void. The text includes problems after every chapter. The explanations are written clearly. Tables list many natural experiments, mostly from political science, but also from economics, education, and famous examples such as John Snow's 1855 cholera study. Causal inference texts are often multidisciplinary, but this book is more focused on political science than other fields of social science, despite its title. This text could be reasonable for a political science course. For economics or other fields, I think that Angrist and Pischke's Mostly Harmless Econometrics is better for the same topics. Most/all examples from health/medicine are from David Freedman's books, so not comprehensive.

One of the recent books illuminating the political science of the 2020s, together with work by such other authors as Goertz and Mahoney, Blatter and Haverland, and Gerring. Buy this book or acquire it in other ways and learn it by heart. Should be compulsory reading both for major degree students in political science at the MA level and doctoral students.

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