Causal Analysis in Population Studies Concepts, Methods, Applications /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Engelhardt, Henriette (Editor), Kohler, Hans-Peter (Editor), Fürnkranz-Prskawetz, Alexia (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Edition: 1.
• Series: The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis, 23
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Statistics.; Population.; Sociology.; Demography.; Social Sciences.; Methodology of the Social Sciences.; Sociology, general.; Population Economics.; Statistics for Social Science, Behavorial Science, Education, Public Policy, and Law.; Social Sciences, general.

The central aim of many studies in population research and demography is to explain cause-effect relationships among variables or events. For decades, population scientists have concentrated their efforts on estimating the ‘causes of effects’ by applying standard cross-sectional and dynamic regressi...