Causal Mediation, Manipulation, and Estimating Treatment Effects of Attributes

Causal Mediation, Manipulation, and Estimating Treatment Effects of Attributes

Neyman Seminar
Sep 15, 2010, 04:10 PM - 05:00 PM | 1011 Evans Hall | Happening As Scheduled
Jas Sekhon, UC Berkeley Political Science (Speaker)
Causal mediation analysis examines the roles of intermediate variables that lie in the causal paths between treatment and outcome variables. In recent years, many new assumptions have been proposed that provide nonparametric identification of causal mediation effects when treatment is randomized but intermediate variables are not. We provide new analytical results which demonstrate that these...