Customers renewed early to beat the price increase. Measure its effect anyway.

Causal inferenceHard

Problem. When the Business+ price rose from $12.50 to $15, existing customers moved to the new price at their next renewal. Some customers renewed early, before the change date, to lock in the old price for another year. You want to estimate the price change's effect on downgrades to Pro. How do you handle the early renewals?

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