Counterfactuals and Causal Inference (Pocket)
avStephen L. Morgan, Christopher Winship, Stephen L. Morgan
ISBN: 9780521671934 - UTGIVEN: 200707Did mandatory busing programs in the 1970s increase the school achievement of disadvantaged minority youth? Does obtaining a college degree increase an individual's labor market earnings? Did the use of the butterfly ballot in some Florida counties in the 2000 presidential election cost Al Gore vot[...]
Counterfactuals and Causal Inference (Pocket)
avStephen L. Morgan, Christopher Winship, Stephen L. Morgan
ISBN: 9781107694163 - UTGIVEN: 2014-11In this second edition of Counterfactuals and Causal Inference, completely revised and expanded, the essential features of the counterfactual approach to observational data analysis are presented with examples from the social, demographic, and health sciences. Alternative estimation techniques are f[...]
On the Edge of Commitment (Inbunden)
avStephen L. Morgan
ISBN: 9780804744195 - UTGIVEN: 2005-03The importance of educational certification for labor market success has increased since the 1970s. But social sciences still cannot answer a fundamental question: Who goes to college and why? In On the Edge of Commitment, Stephen L. Morgan offers a new model of educational achievement to explain wh[...]
Handbook of Causal Analysis for Social Research (Pocket)
avStephen L. (EDT) Morgan
ISBN: 9789401794077 - UTGIVEN: 2014-09What constitutes a causal explanation, and must an explanation be causal? What warrants a causal inference, as opposed to a descriptive regularity? What techniques are available to detect when causal effects are present, and when can these techniques be used to identify the relative importance of th[...]
