This type of study is called a quasi-experiment, and it allows scientists to estimate how much social media actually changes teens' mental health, or as Makarin says, "We can get causal estimates ...

Years and years of research add up to an uncomfortable ... from 2022 written by three economists that tried to get around the correlation conundrum with a creative attempt at a quasi-experiment.

Abigail Weitzman, Jennifer S. Barber, Justin Heinze, Marc Zimmerman, How Nearby Homicides Affect Young Women’s Pregnancy Desires, Demography, Vol. 58, No. 3 (June ...

Objectives To establish the effectiveness of the ‘VolleyVeilig’ programme on reducing injury rate, injury burden and injury severity in youth volleyball players. Methods We conducted a ...

Could temporary tax cuts stimulate consumer spending? Sector-specific measures to the COVID-19 pandemic provides a quasi-experimental variation in consumption patterns to infer a causal effect of tax ...