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Introduction to the Virtual Issue: Past and Future Research Agenda on Causal Inference

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2017

Kosuke Imai*
Affiliation:
Department of Politics, Princeton University, Princeton NJ 08544, email: kimai@princeton.edu
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