Causal Analysis in Population Studies Concepts, Methods, Applications
The central aim of many studies in population research and demography is to explain cause-effect relationships among variables or events. For decades, population scientists have concentrated their efforts on estimating the ‘causes of effects’ by applying standard cross-sectional and dynamic regressi...
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
2009, 2009
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Edition: | 1st ed. 2009 |
Series: | The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis
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Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Causal Analysis in Population Studies
- Issues in the Estimation of Causal Effects in Population Research, with an Application to the Effects of Teenage Childbearing
- Sequential Potential Outcome Models to Analyze the Effects of Fertility on Labor Market Outcomes
- Structural Modelling, Exogeneity, and Causality
- Causation as a Generative Process. The Elaboration of an Idea for the Social Sciences and an Application to an Analysis of an Interdependent Dynamic Social System
- Instrumental Variable Estimation for Duration Data
- Female Labour Participation with Concurrent Demographic Processes: An Estimation for Italy
- New Estimates on the Effect of Parental Separation on Child Health
- Assessing the Causal Effect of Childbearing on Household Income in Albania
- Causation and Its Discontents