Causal attribution in block-recursive social systems. A structural modeling perspective

Guillaume Wunsch, Michel Mouchart and Federica Russo
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Guillaume Wunsch: Université catholique de Louvain
Michel Mouchart: Université catholique de Louvain
Federica Russo: Universiteit Amsterdam

No 2017028, LIDAM Discussion Papers CORE from Université catholique de Louvain, Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE)

Abstract: One method for causal analysis in the social sciences is structural modeling. Structural models, as used in this paper, model the (causal) mechanism for a social phenomenon by recursively decomposing the multivariate distribution of the variables of inter

Keywords: causality; block-recursivity; contingent conditions; interaction; conjunctive causes (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017-10-04
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