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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Autor principal: Land, Kenneth (-)
Otros Autores: Engelhardt, Henriette, Kohler, Hans-Peter, Prskawetz, Alexia
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands 2009.
Edición:1.
Colección:Springer series on demographic methods and population analysis ; 23.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.