Browsing FAS Scholarly Articles by Keyword "causality"
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Dealing with Limited Overlap in Estimation of Average Treatment Effects
(Oxford University Press, 2009)Estimation of average treatment effects under unconfounded or ignorable treatment assignment is often hampered by lack of overlap in the covariate distributions between treatment groups. This lack of overlap can lead to ... -
Linking Language and Events: Spatiotemporal Cues Drive Children’s Expectations About the Meanings of Novel Transitive Verbs
(Informa UK Limited, 2016)How do children map linguistic representations onto the conceptual structures that they encode? In the present studies, we provided 3-4 year old children with minimal-pair scene contrasts in order to determine the effect ... -
Translating Causal Claims: Principles and Strategies for Policy-Relevant Criminology
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2013)Research Summary This article reviews the causal turn in the social sciences and accompanying efforts by criminologists to make policy claims more credible. Although there has been much progress in techniques for the ...