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Use when defending the causal identification of a Journal of Policy Analysis and Management (JPAM) manuscript — RCTs, difference-in-differences / event study, regression discontinuity / kink, instrumental variables, and synthetic control for policy and program evaluation. Strengthens the design and its assumptions; it does not write estimation code.

When to use

• Specifying or defending identification for a policy evaluation
• Choosing among RCT / DiD / RD / IV / synthetic control
• Preparing a pre-analysis plan for a prospective program evaluation
• Defending causal claims, parallel trends, instruments, or discontinuities
• Auditing research design and identification assumptions

When not to use

• Writing estimation code

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