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 <U+0018>causes of effects<U+0019> by applying standard cross-sect...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Engelhardt, Henriette. (Editor), Kohler, Hans-Peter. (Editor), F<U+00fc>rnkranz-Prskawetz, Alexia. (Editor)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
Edition:1.
Series:The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis, 23
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Online Access:https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9967-0
Table of Contents:
  • 1: Causal analysis in population studies: H. Engelhardt, H.P. Kohler, A. Prskawetz
  • 2: Issues in the estimation of causal effects in population research, with an application to the effects of teenage childbearing: R.A. Moffitt
  • 3: Sequential potential outcome models to analyze the effects of fertility on labor market outcomes: M. Lechner
  • 4: Structural modelling, exogeneity, and causality: M. Mouchart, F. Russo, G. Wunsch
  • 5: 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: H.-P. Blossfeld
  • 6: Instrumental variable estimation for duration date: G.E. Bijwaard
  • 7: Female labour participation with concurrent demographic processes: an estimation for italy: G. De Santis, A. Di Pino
  • 8: New estimates on the effect of parental separation on child health: S.H. Liu, F. Heiland
  • 9: Assessing the causal effect of childbearing on household income in Albania: F. Francavilla, A. Mattei
  • 10: Causation and its discontents: H. L. Smith.