Structural Modelling, Exogeneity, and Causality

Michel Mouchart (), Federica Russo () and Guillaume Wunsch ()
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Michel Mouchart: Catholic University of Leuven
Federica Russo: Catholic University of Leuven
Guillaume Wunsch: Institute of Statistics, Universit’e catholique de Louvain

Chapter Chapter 4 in Causal Analysis in Population Studies, 2009, pp 59-82 from Springer

Abstract: Whilst it might seem uncontroversial that the health sciences search for causes – that is, for causes of disease and for effective treatments – the causal perspective is less obvious in social science research, perhaps because it is apparently harder to glean general laws in the social sciences than in other sciences, due the probabilistic character of human behaviour. Thus the search for causes in the social sciences is often perceived to be a vain enterprise and it is often thought that social studies merely describe the phenomena.

Keywords: Background Knowledge; Causal Relation; Conditional Distribution; Causal Analysis; Asbestos Exposure (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-9967-0_4

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