Publication
14 August 2019
Assessing the Relative Importance of Causal Factors
Published by: IDS
While contribution analysis provides a basis for making causal claims and understanding how and why change occurs, it does not on its own estimate the relative importance, much less the size, of the causal factors at work. In this CDI Practice Paper written by John Mayne, we discuss ways of assessing the relative importance of such causal factors, while arguing that there are likely no quantitative answers to the question.
