Based on our amazing experiences attending the workshop on “Causal Inference in the Social Sciences” at the University of Leipzig in summer 2019, we decided to host a follow-up workshop at the German Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies (DZHW) in Hanover. The subsequent workshop “Causality in the Social Sciences II” has been integrated into the scientific activities of DZHW’s research cluster “Empirical Methods in Higher Education and Science Studies”. Causal analysis is one thematic focus among others. The particular objective of this workshop was to bring together young scholars from different fields to discuss all questions related to causality. (...)