Causal Inference

How to Ask the Right Question: Choosing Estimands for Health Policy Research
An invited talk at the 2025 ENAR Spring Meeting, in a session titled “It’s All About the Estimand: Asking the Right Questions to Best Inform Health Policy Decisions” organized by Nandita Mitra.
Mar 24, 2025 1:45 PM — 2:10 PM New Orleans, LA
Nicholas J. Seewald
Slides
How to Ask the Right Question: Choosing Estimands for Health Policy Research
Target Trial Emulation for Evaluating Mental Health Policy
An invited talk on the policy trial emulation framework with application to mental health at the Thomas R. Ten Have Symposium on Statistics in Mental Health.
Jun 28, 2024 2:50 PM — 3:20 PM New York, NY
Nicholas J. Seewald, Beth McGinty, Elizabeth A. Stuart
Slides Project
Practical Guidance on Whether and When to Aggregate Individual‐Level Data for Causal Health Policy Evaluation
Health policy researchers often have questions about the effects of state policy on individual-level outcomes collected over multiple …
May 16, 2024 3:30 PM — 3:45 PM Seattle, WA
Nicholas J. Seewald
Slides Project
Practical Guidance on Whether and When to Aggregate Individual‐Level Data for Causal Health Policy Evaluation
Handling Correlation in Stacked Difference-in-Differences Estimates with Application to Medical Cannabis Policy
Health policy researchers often have questions about the effects of a policy implemented at some cluster-level unit, e.g., states, …
Dec 17, 2023 1:50 PM — 3:30 PM Berlin, Germany
Nicholas J. Seewald, Beth McGinty, Kayla Tormohlen, Ian Schmid, Elizabeth A. Stuart
Slides Project Paper
Handling Correlation in Stacked Difference-in-Differences Estimates with Application to Medical Cannabis Policy