Causal Inference

By: Paul r. Rosenbaum

Narrated by: Chris Monteiro

A nontechnical guide to the basic ideas of modern causal inference, with illustrations from health, the economy, and public policy.

Which of two antiviral drugs does the most to save people infected with Ebola virus? Does a daily glass of wine prolong or shorten life? Does winning the lottery make you more or less likely to go bankrupt? How do you identify genes that cause disease? Do unions raise wages? Do some antibiotics have lethal side effects? Does the Earned Income Tax Credit help people enter the workforce?

Causal Inference provides a brief and nontechnical introduction to randomized experiments, propensity scores, natural experiments, instrumental variables, sensitivity analysis, and quasi-experimental devices. Ideas are illustrated with examples from medicine, epidemiology, economics and business, the social sciences, and public policy.

©2023 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (P)2023 Ascent Audio

Not appropriate for audible and the reader don’t know how to read math

The math is read poorly. I keep hearing capital T, lowercase r. Very hard to understand.

Not Appropriate for Audible

Kept hoping that the reading of formulas, Upper C, lower t, sub k, would end but eventually gave up and tried to return the audio book. Unfortunately, it was not eligible because it wasn't purchased with a credit. Makes me wonder if the author has listened to this book and my bad for not reading the reviews.

not suitable as audiobook

whoever decided creating an audio book based on this has either never listened to one or is extremely gifted. i cannot follow or enjoy this book AT ALL

Great book and great reader.

The book introduces topics progressively and with many examples, making it easy to understand. The reader does a great job and nothing besides the audio is necessary.