Resources for causal inference without control groups

In this morning’s Ignite session at AEA 2012, I did a five minute explanation of ways of doing causal inference without control groups, comparison groups or a counterfactual, using a three-part strategy:

Not surprisingly, much of the detail was left out about the three approaches which use these strategies in a systematic way.  Click the links to access descriptions and resources from the BetterEvaluation site.

Multiple Lines and Levels of Evidence

Contribution Analysis (developed by John Mayne, Canada)

Collaborative Outcomes Reporting  (developed by Jess Dart, Australia).

Previous posts which discuss causal inference include:

Causal inference for program theory evaluation