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Treatment Effects in Stata: A Beginner's Tour of Six Estimators with the Maternal Smoking and Birth Weight Case Study

Does smoking during pregnancy lower the birth weight of babies? Using data on about 4,600 births in Stata, we compare six ways of making smokers and nonsmokers comparable, and most of them agree on a harm of roughly 230 grams. It comes with an interactive app that runs in your web browser.