IMPLEMENTATION-NEUTRAL CAUSATION
| Autor: | Stephen F. LeRoy |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Economics and Econometrics
External variable 05 social sciences Direct path 06 humanities and the arts 0603 philosophy ethics and religion Epistemology Philosophy Variable (computer science) Ask price 060302 philosophy 0502 economics and business Path (graph theory) Econometrics Causal link Neutrality 050207 economics Causation Mathematics |
| Zdroj: | Economics and Philosophy. 32:121-142 |
| ISSN: | 1474-0028 0266-2671 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/s0266267115000280 |
| Popis: | The most basic question one can ask of a model is ‘What is the effect on variable y2 of variable y1?’ Causation is ‘implementation neutral’ when all interventions on external variables that lead to a given change in y1 have the same effect on y2, so that the effect of y1 on y2 is defined unambiguously. Familiar ideas of causal analysis do not apply when causation is implementation neutral. For example, a cause variable cannot be linked to an effect variable by both a direct path and a distinct indirect path. Discussion of empirical aspects of implementation neutrality leads to further unexpected results, such as that if one variable causes another the coefficient representing that causal link is always identified. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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