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After reading @anthlittle, @ethanbdm and @rodrikdani views about whether concerns about causal identification should be weighed more heavily than the importance of research questions, I'm left thinking we are missing a big issue in this discussion 1/
Social scientific research is not just about assessing causal claims. I know, others have already pointed to the importance of descriptive research so that we can identify what causal questions are important, 2/
And I for sure agree with that. E.g., did you know most of the global expansion of public primary schooling took place *before* democracy? This implies it's really important to study how different factors affected educ provision under autocracy (which we haven't done much of) 3/ 
