This article reviews recent advances in causal inference relevant to sociology. We focus on
a selective subset of contributions aligning with four broad topics: causal effect identification …

Disruptive events have significant consequences for the individuals and families who
experience them, but these effects do not occur equally across the population. While some …

Predicated on the increasing abundance of electronic health records, we investigate the
problem of inferring individualized treatment effects using observational data. Stemming …

Evaluating treatment effect heterogeneity widely informs treatment decision making. At the
moment, much emphasis is placed on the estimation of the conditional average treatment …

This paper investigates the impact of financial innovations (mobile money) on financial
inclusion. Using both parametric and nonparametric methods on panel data from 50 African …

When devising a course of treatment for a patient, doctors often have little quantitative
evidence on which to base their decisions, beyond their medical education and published …

Fully updated to reflect the most recent changes in the field, the Second Edition of
Propensity Score Analysis provides an accessible, systematic review of the origins, history …

Demonstrating compelling causal evidence of the existence and strength of peer-to-peer
influence has become the holy grail of modern research in online social networks. In these …

In this article, we consider how the economic return to a college education varies across
members of the US population. Based on principles of comparative advantage, scholars …

We analyze the inclusiveness and effectiveness of agricultural cooperatives in Rwanda. We
estimate mean income and poverty effects of cooperative membership using propensity …