causal identification.

Determining which cause-and-effect relationships a study can support from its data, design, and assumptions.

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Words that belong together

• causal identification strategy
• strengthen causal identification
• identification assumptions

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The natural experiment strengthened causal identification by separating policy timing from local demand.

Usage notes

Identification asks whether a causal effect can be recovered from the design and assumptions, not whether a model merely fits well.