Dear all,
Please join us for the final session of the Applied Statistics Workshop
(Gov 3009) this semester on Wednesday, April 25 from 12.00 - 1.30 pm in
CGIS Knafel Room 354. Felix Elwert, Assistant Professor in the Department
of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will give a
presentation entitled "Endogenous Selection". As always, a light lunch will
be provided.
Abstract:
Selection bias is a central problem for causal
inference in the social
sciences. Quite how central a problem it is, however, is often obscured by
ambiguous terminology, needlessly technical presentations, and narrow rules
of thumb. This paper uses directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) to advance a
precise yet intuitive global definition of endogenous selection bias and
argue its theoretical and practical centrality for causal inference. The
paper clarifies the fundamental structural difference between confounding
and endogenous selection, shows that nearly all non-parametric
identification problems relate to either confounding or endogenous
selection, and argues that the problem of endogenous selection is
indifferent to timing. Perhaps most importantly, we illustrate the
importance of endogenous selection bias with numerous and varied examples
from empirical social research.
This is joint work with Chris Winship.
An up-to-date schedule for the workshop is available at
http://www.iq.harvard.edu/events/node/1208.
Best,
Konstantin
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Konstantin Kashin
Ph.D. Student in Government
Harvard University
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