I dunno. Maybe it is worth it to distinguish research designs and estimators? I think that methods is growing alongside survey experiments. But I get the point! It's a subset of natural experiment.
We looked at process tracing in a previous round but my concern is that process tracing is a relatively new branding of a much more widely used approach to analysis. We're ideally wanting to track methods used rather than the branding of those methods.
We ended up with the historical narrative category to capture some of that idea but we're definitely interested in building out the qual methods side better
Relatedly, I’d be interested in papers that explicitly describe an “intervention” - although even for an LLM I think that might be tough to disentangle from the ways that term gets used to describe “theory” or “a contribution”
No - more the “experiment” sense but for observational studies. Maybe a bit excessive, but I’m curious to know how far the push to “define your estimand” has gone.
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Process tracing and QCA come to mind, for example.
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