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Evaluating Causation: Social Effects of Tax Deadline

Instructions:–

The following questions are associated with the article. Before answering the questions that follow, please make sure that you have reviewed the assigned reading carefully.

Assignment Prompts:

1.  Within the article Social Effects of Tax Deadline would you say that the authors have implied a cause and effect relationship between tax deadline and the various social issues observed within the study (e.g. mental health, crime, domestic violence)? Please justify your response.

2.  Do you trust the conclusions that the authors have made? In other words, if a cause and effect relationship was/was not reported, do you agree with the authors interpretation? Please provide an explanation for your response.

3.  Consider the requirements for cause and effect inference (i.e. temporal precedence, covariation, elimination of alternative explanations). Within the results reported, do you see evidence of these criteria?

4.  After completing question 3, has your response to question 2 changed?

FORMAT:-

Please copy and paste the assignment prompts into a word processing document, and record your responses beneath the prompts. Please use full sentences, appropriate grammar, and present content in your own words (i.e. do not copy and paste content from the article, do not rely on direct quotes).

I AM ATTACHING AN ARTICLE YOU NEED TO FIRST READ AND THEN ANSWERS TO 4 QUESTIONS ABOVE.. Please use full sentences, appropriate grammar, and present content in your own words (i.e. do not copy and paste content from the article, do not rely on direct quotes).