Bounds on Direct Effects in the Presence of Confounded Intermediate Variables

By Zhihong Cai, Manabu Kuroki, Judea Pearl, Jin Tian. 2008

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Statistics and Probability

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Causal Inference through a Witness Protection Program (2014, background): “on the direct effect of W on Y (Cai et al., 2008).”
On Partial Identification of the Pure Direct Effect (2015, background): “…inference when structural assumptions are not sufficiently strong to give point identification of a causal parameter of interest (Robins, 1989; Balke and Pearl, 1997; Zhang and Rubin, 2003; Kaufman et al., 2005; Cheng and Small, 2006; Cai et al., 2008; Sjölander, 2009; Taguri and Chiba, 2015).”
Estimating individual treatment effect: generalization bounds and algorithms (2016, background): “…the causal inference community relates to bounding the estimate of the average treatment effect given an instrumental variable (Balke & Pearl, 1997; Bareinboim & Pearl, 2012), or under hidden confounding , for example when the ignorability assumption does not hold (Pearl, 2009; Cai et al., 2008).”
The Mediation Formula: A Guide to the Assessment of Causal Pathways in Nonlinear Models (2011, background): “…decisions and for the purposes of explanation and identifying causal mechanisms (Joffe et al., 2007; Albert and Nelson, 2011; Mortensen et al., 2009; Imai et al., 2010a; Geneletti, 2007; Robins et al., 2007, 2009; Petersen et al., 2006; Hafeman and Schwartz, 2009; Kaufman, 2010; Cai et al., 2008).”
Graphical methods for inequality constraints in marginalized DAGs (2012, methodology): “Generalizations to non-binary state spaces are also possible [3].”
Controlled direct and mediated effects: definition, identification and bounds (2010, result): “Previous results concerning bounds for controlled direct effects (Kaufman et al., 2005, 2009; Cai et al., 2008) rely on monotonicity relationships between the treatment, mediator and outcome themselves; unfortunately, in many cases the existing results on bounds are such that the bounds obtained…”
Conceptual issues concerning mediation, interventions and composition (2009, background): “Note that even in settings in which the identification conditions for controlled and natural direct and indirect effects are not satisfied, data can sometimes still be used to obtain bounds on these effects (Kaufman et al., 2005, 2009; Cai et al., 2008; Sjölander, 2009).”
Transparent Parametrizations of Models for Potential Outcomes (2012, background): “(2009) and Cai et al. (2008). Likewise, with ACDE(x1), ACDEAT(x1) and ExAT.”