[gov3009-l] Rubin on 'Direct and Indirect Effects'

Dear Applied Statistics Community, This Wednesday the applied statistics workshop presents Donald Rubin -- Department of Statistics, Harvard University – who will present, "Direct and Indirect Causal Effects: An unhelpful distinction?" Don has suggested the following papers provide a helpful background to his talk: 2003 - "Assumptions Allowing the Estimation of Direct Causal Effects: Discussion of `Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise? Tests for Direct Causal Paths Between Health and Socioeconomic Status' by Adams et al.'". Journal of Econometrics, 112, pp. 79-87. (With F. Mealli.) 2004 - "Direct and Indirect Causal Effects Via Potential Outcomes." The Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, 31, pp. 161-170; 196-198, with discussion and reply "Causal Inference Using Potential Outcomes: Design, Modeling, Decisions." 2004 Fisher Lecture. The Journal of the American Statistical Association, 100, 469, pp. 322-331. The workshop meets at 12 noon in room N-354 CGIS-Knafel (1737 Cambridge St) with a light lunch, with presentations usually beginning at 1215. Please send along any comments or concerns Cheers Justin