"Does this project directly impact efforts to strengthen U.S. supply chains or secure rare earth minerals?"

Apparently time to start writing grant applications to simultaneously try to identify and develop vaccines against deadly pathogens AND *checks notes* mine yttrium AND protect Christians. 2/2

Thanks again to everyone! Links and brief descriptions are on my webpage: sites.google.com/view/jonasvl...

To me, the advantage of causal inference methods lies in the explicit formulation of what one aims the estimate and the assumptions made. While you cannot prove causality, you can agree or disagree with assumptions and you can do sensitivity analyses (triangulation)