• Estimated the causal effect of Zika virus on Brazilian birth rates using R.
• Used causal inference methods and packages in R to replicate the original paper’s results.
• Added municipal-level GDP data to compare the expanded approach with the original to see if this improved estimates. It did not.
The full report/poster and link to the original paper can be found in the Github repository. The final poster is embedded below.
Poster:
Project link: https://github.com/ebartt/causal_final