Search Results - subject:"causal inference."

Causal inference with observational data

Nichols, Austin - In: Stata Journal 7 (2007) 4, pp. 507-541

Problems with inferring causal relationships from nonexperimental data are briefly reviewed, and four broad classes of methods designed to allow estimation of and inference about causal parameters are described: panel regression, matching or reweighting, instrumental variables, and regression...

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Opium for the Masses: How Foreign Free Media Can Stabilize Authoritarian Regimes

Kern, Holger; Hainmueller, Jens - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

A common claim in the democratization literature is that foreign free media undermine authoritarian rule. No reliable micro-level evidence on this topic exists, however, since independent survey research is rarely possible in authoritarian regimes and self-selection into media consumption...

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UNA REVISIÓN SOBRE LOS MÉTODOS DE ESTUDIO Y EVALUACIÓN EN LAS POLÍTICAS ACTIVAS DE EMPLEO

Espinar, F. Alfonso Arellano - Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas (IVIE) - 2006

The paper provides a review of the methodology of Survival Analysis and Causal Inference in the labour market context … instruments in Survival Analysis. Causal Inference focuses on Matching methods, Difference-in Difference method and Instrumental … methodology of Survival Analysis and Causal Inference in the labour market context. This literature has been used to analyse and …

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Reducing Mean Squared Error in the Analysis of Binary Paired Data

Sjolander, Arvid - In: Epidemiologic Methods 2 (2013) 1, pp. 33-47

Abstract Matched pairs appear frequently in studies of the association between a dichotomous exposure and a dichotomous outcome. The standard conditional logistic regression estimator of the common odds ratio is consistent, but uses only information from the doubly discordant pairs. To gain...

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Targeted Data Adaptive Estimation of the Causal Dose–Response Curve

Díaz, Iván; van der Laan, Mark J. - In: Journal of Causal Inference 1 (2013) 2, pp. 171-192

Abstract Estimation of the causal dose–response curve is an old problem in statistics. In a non-parametric model, if the treatment is continuous, the dose–response curve is not a pathwise differentiable parameter, and no -consistent estimator is available. However, the risk of a candidate...

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Improving Generalizations From Experiments Using Propensity Score Subclassification

Tipton, Elizabeth - In: Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics 38 (2013) 3, pp. 239-266

As a result of the use of random assignment to treatment, randomized experiments typically have high internal validity. However, units are very rarely randomly selected from a well-defined population of interest into an experiment; this results in low external validity. Under nonrandom sampling,...

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Analyzing Regression-Discontinuity Designs With Multiple Assignment Variables

Wong, Vivian C.; Steiner, Peter M.; Cook, Thomas D. - In: Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics 38 (2013) 2, pp. 107-141

In a traditional regression-discontinuity design (RDD), units are assigned to treatment on the basis of a cutoff score and a continuous assignment variable. The treatment effect is measured at a single cutoff location along the assignment variable. This article introduces the multivariate...

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Sensitivity Plots for Confounder Bias in the Single Mediator Model

Cox, Matthew G.; Kisbu-Sakarya, Yasemin; Milica … - In: Evaluation Review 37 (2013) 5, pp. 405-431

Background:Causal inference continues to be a critical aspect of evaluation research. Recent research in causal … inference for statistical mediation has focused on addressing the sequential ignorability assumption; specifically, that there …

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It can happen here: the impact of the Mumbai terror attacks on public opinion in Western Europe

Finseraas, Henning; Listhaug, Ola - In: Public Choice 156 (2013) 1, pp. 213-228

Do terror attacks have an impact on public opinion, even if the terror attacks happen far away? We exploit the fact that the fourth round of the European Social Survey was conducted in several West European countries at the time of the 2008 terror attacks in Mumbai, India, in order to identify...

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Child welfare and the challenge of causal inference

Foster, E. Michael; McCombs-Thornton, Kimberly - In: Children and Youth Services Review 35 (2013) 7, pp. 1130-1142

Causal inference refers to the assessment of cause and effect relationships in observational data—i.e., in situations … elements of causal inference—manipulation and the counterfactual. How would a child's circumstances differ if we changed her … environment? This article begins with one mathematical approach to framing causal inference, the potential outcomes framework …

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