Methological Research: Frontier Questions

All research methods used in the social sciences are not fully formed. There is an active frontier of research on methods. This section of SKY ambitions to report on the most important unsolved methodological questions and on the progress of the communities of researchers tackling them. This section is organized along the lines of the various methods social scientists use to conduct causal inference:

• Randomized Controlled Trials
• Natural Experiments
  • Difference In Differences
  • Regression Discontiuity Designs
  • Instrumental Variables
  • Kink Designs and Notches
• Observational Methods
• Lab Experiments
• Structural Models
• Qualitative Methods
• Meta-analysis