Econometric Causality

This paper presents the econometric approach to causal modeling. It is motivated by policy problems. New causal parameters are defined and identified to address specific policy problems...

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Year of publication:	2008-03-01
Authors:	Heckman, James J.
Institutions:	Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn>
Subject:	Ökonometrie \| econometrics \| Unternehmenserfolg \| Evaluation \| evaluation \| Kausalität \| Wirtschaftspolitisches Programm

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1 Introduction
2 The Econometric Approach
3 Policy Evaluation Questions and Criteria of Interest
3.1 Three Policy Evaluation Problems Considered in This Paper
3.2 Dfinition of Individual Level Treatment Effects
3.3 The Evaluation Problem
3.4 New Population Level Treatment Parameters Introduced inEconomics
3.5 Distributions of Counterfactuals
3.6 Accounting for Uncertainty
3.7 A Specific Model
4 Counterfactuals, Causality and Structural Econometric Models
4.1 Generating Counterfactuals
4.2 Fixing vs. Conditioning
4.3 The Econometric Model vs. the Neyman{Rubin Model
4.4 Simultaneous Causality
5 Marschak's Maxim and the Relationship Betweenthe Econometric Literature and the Statistical Treatment Effect
Literature: A Synthesis
Acknowledgments
References

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