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

caspi_obs_studies_published

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

ObsStudy_published

Applications and Case Studies Methodology

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.