Counterfactuals and Causal Inference - Morgan, Stephen L. (The Johns Hopkins University) a Winship, Christopher (Harvard University, Massachusetts)

Cause-and-effect questions are the motivation for most research in the social, demographic, and health sciences. The counterfactual approach to causal analysis represents a unified framework for the prosecution of these questions. This second edition aims to convince more social scientists to take this approach when analyzing these core empirical questions.