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A note on post-treatment selection in studying racial discrimination in policing
Qingyuan Zhao, Luke J Keele, Dylan S Small +1
We discuss some causal estimands used to study racial discrimination in policing. A central challenge is that not all police-civilian encounters are recorded in administrative data…
Hospital Quality Risk Standardization via Approximate Balancing Weights
Luke Keele, Eli Ben-Michael, Avi Feller +2
Comparing outcomes across hospitals, often to identify underperforming hospitals, is a critical task in health services research. However, naive comparisons of average outcomes, su…
A Negative Correlation Strategy for Bracketing in Difference-in-Differences
Ting Ye, Luke Keele, Raiden Hasegawa +1
The method of difference-in-differences (DID) is widely used to study the causal effect of policy interventions in observational studies. DID employs a before and after comparison…
Protocol for a Study of the Effect of Surface Mining in Central Appalachia on Adverse Birth Outcomes
Dylan S. Small, Dan Firth, Luke Keele +4
Surface mining has become a major method of coal mining in Central Appalachia alongside the traditional underground mining. Concerns have been raised about the health effects of th…
Comparing the Performance of Statistical Adjustment Methods By Recovering the Experimental Benchmark from the REFLUX Trial
Luke Keele, Stephen O'Neill, Richard Grieve
Much evidence in comparative effectiveness research is based on observational studies. Researchers who conduct observational studies typically assume that there are no unobservable…