Observational Studies is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes manuscripts on all aspects of observational studies, including, but not limited to, study protocols for observational studies, methodologies for observational studies, descriptions of data sets for observational studies, software for observational studies and analyses of observational studies. For further details, see the journal's aims and scope.

The journal is open access and has no publication charges. Papers are posted to the website rapidly when accepted.

February 1, 2021

A Difference-in-Difference Study Evaluating the Effect of Minimum Wage Policy on Body Mass Index and Related Health Behaviors

By Caitlin Caspi, Molly De Marco, Thomas Durfee, Abayomi Oyengua, Leah Chapman,Julian Wolfson, Samuel Myers, Jr., Lisa Harnack

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Methodology Study Protocols

January 22, 2021

ivmodel: An R Package for Inference and Sensitivity Analysis of Instrumental Variables Models with One Endogenous Variable

By Hyunseung Kang, Yang Jiang, Qingyuan Zhao, and Dylan Small

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Applications and Case Studies Methodology

September 15, 2020

Constructing a More Closely Matched Control Group in a Difference-in-Differences Analysis: Its Effect on History Interacting with Group Bias

By Pallavi Basu and Dylan Small

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Applications and Case Studies Methodology

May 29, 2020

Survival of Ceramic vs. Metal Femoral Heads in Total Primary Hip Arthroplasty: An Observational Registry Study

By Guy Cafri, Yuexin Chen, Elizabeth Paxton, Priscilla Chan,
Matthew Kellly, Brian Hallstrom and Steven Kurtz

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Study Protocols

February 7, 2020

The START study: An evaluation to study the impact of a natural experiment in high school start times on adolescent weight and related behaviors

By Rachel Widome, Kyla Wahlstrom, Melissa Laska, Darin Erickson, Aaron Berger, Conrad Iber and Gudrin Killian

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Study Protocols

Observational Studies invites submission of comments on Leo Breiman’s paper “Statistical Modeling: The Two Cultures” (Statistical Science, 2001, 16(3), 199-231). Breiman’s paper will be reprinted on its 20^th anniversary along with comments. The deadline for submitting comments is March 5, 2021.

The 2020 Cochran award for best paper published in Observational Studies between 2015-2019 is awarded to Giancarlo Visconti and Jose Zubizarreta for their paper “Handling Limited Overlap in Observational Studies with Cardinality Matching.” The next Cochran award will be given in 2023 for a paper published between 2020-2022.