Causal inference

Rosche, B. (2024). Micro-level determinants of macro-level outcomes. The micro-macro link with empirical methods.

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Explaining how macro-level outcomes emerge from their constituting parts at the micro-level is a complex undertaking. In empirical research, however, statistical methods that feature trivial aggregation functions dominate because methods to study more complex aggregation processes remain underdeveloped. In this thesis, I contribute to the development of empirical-statistical methods for the study of micro-macro links. … Read more

Rosche, B. (2024). Treatment effects on within-group and between-group inequality. A causal decomposition approach.

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Rising inequality has been linked to growing disparities within and between economic strata. Yet, existing approaches to analyzing inequality often disregard within-group inequality and are limited in addressing causal questions about why inequality is changing. This paper introduces a causal approach to examining how treatment variables impact within-group, between-group, and total inequality. The method permits … Read more

An, W., Beauvile, R., Rosche, B. (2022). Causal Network Analysis. Annual Review of Sociology, 48.

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Fueled by recent advances in statistical modeling and the rapid growth of network data, social network analysis has become increasingly popular in sociology and related disciplines. However, a significant amount of work in the field has been descriptive and correlational, which prevents the findings from being more rigorously translated into practices and policies. This article … Read more