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Title: Causal Effect Heterogeneity
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Brand, Jennie E. Simon Thomas, Juli |
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Causal Effect Heterogeneity In: Handbook of Causal Analysis for Social Research. S. Morgan, ed., New York: Springer, 2013: 189-213 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Springer Keyword(s): College Education; Education; Heterogeneity; Propensity Scores; Volunteer Work Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Individuals differ not only in background characteristics, often called “pretreatment heterogeneity,” but also in how they respond to a particular treatment, event, or intervention. A principal interaction of interest for questions of selection into treatment and causal inference in the social sciences is between the treatment and the propensity of treatment. Although the importance of “treatment-effect heterogeneity,” so defined, has been widely recognized in the causal inference literature, empirical quantitative social science research has not fully absorbed these lessons. In this chapter, we describe key estimation strategies for the study of heterogeneous treatment effects; we discuss recent research that attends to causal effect heterogeneity, with a focus on the study of effects of education, and what we gain from such attention; and we demonstrate the methods with an example of the effects of college on civic participation. The primary goal of this chapter is to encourage researchers to routinely examine treatment-effect heterogeneity with the same rigor they devote to pretreatment heterogeneity. [Chapter 11] |
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Brand, Jennie E. and Juli Simon Thomas. "Causal Effect Heterogeneity" In: Handbook of Causal Analysis for Social Research. S. Morgan, ed., New York: Springer, 2013: 189-213
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