<span>Title IX. Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972 is a federal law that states: "No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance."</span>
Quasi-natural experiments, by contrast, do not involve random application of a treatment. Instead, a treatment is applied due to social or political factors.