Sensitivity Analysis for Quantifying the Robustness of Causal Inference

Speaker: Ken Frank, Michigan State University Abstract: Social scientists seeking to inform policy or public action must carefully consider how to identify effects and express inferences because actions based on invalid inferences will not yield the intended results. Recognizing the complexities and uncertainties of social science, we seek to inform inevitable debates about causal inferences...

Symposium on ASIA-USA Partnership Opportunities (SAUPO) 2024

KSU Center KSU Center, 3333 Busbee Dr., Kennesaw, GA, United States

Register at $249, covering breakfast, lunch, food, drinks, panels, networking, live music SAUPO Registration link: https://conference.kennesaw.edu/saupo/registration.php For those who pay $249 online to attend SAUPO-2024, you will receive a complimentary signed copy of Dr. May Gao's book ¡§Win Business with Relationships: Communication Strategies Inspired by Entrepreneurs & Taoism, available at the SAUPO Registration Desk on...

Multigenerational Social Mobility: A Demographic Approach

Speaker: Xi Song, University of Pennsylvania Abstract: Most social mobility studies take a two-generation perspective, in which intergenerational relationships are represented by the association between parents’ and offspring’s socioeconomic status. This approach, although widely adopted in the literature, has serious limitations when more than two generations of families are considered. In particular, it ignores the...

Covariance Regression Models for Studying Treatment Effect Heterogeneity

Speaker: Deirdre Bloome, Harvard University Abstract: Causal analyses typically focus on average treatment effects. Yet for substantive research on topics like inequality, interest extends to treatments’ distributional consequences. When individuals differ in their responses to treatment, three types of inequality may result. Treatment may shape inequalities between subgroups defined by pretreatment covariates, it may induce...