Using causal diagrams to assess parallel trends in difference-in-differences studies

DOI10.1002/SIM.70459MaRDI QIDQ6838746zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Audrey Renson, Oliver Dukes, Zach Shahn

Publication date 24 March 2026

Published in Statistics in Medicine (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1002/SIM.70459

zbMATH Keywords

causal inferenceconfoundingdifference-in-differencesdirected acyclic graphssingle world intervention graphs

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10)

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