3 papers
stat.AP2026
Where Do the Returns to Schooling Come From? Educational Transitions and Labor Market Payoffs
Aleksei Opacic
Conventional research on educational effects typically either employs a "years of schooling" measure of education, or dichotomizes attainment as a point-in-time treatment. Yet, suc…
stat.ME2025
Marginal Interventional Effects
Xiang Zhou, Aleksei Opacic
Conventional causal estimands, such as the average treatment effect (ATE), capture how the mean outcome in a population or subpopulation would change if all units were assigned to…
stat.AP2024
Assumption Smuggling in Intermediate Outcome Tests of Causal Mechanisms
Matthew Blackwell, Ruofan Ma, Aleksei Opacic
Political scientists are increasingly interested in assessing causal mechanisms, or determining not just if a causal effect exists but also why it occurs. Even so, many researchers…