[HTML][HTML] Recent developments in causal inference and machine learning

JE Brand, X Zhou, Y Xie - Annual Review of Sociology, 2023 - annualreviews.org
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 …

Environmental risk factors and cognitive outcomes in psychosis: Pre-, perinatal, and early life adversity

E Lipner, KJ O'Brien, MR Pike, A Ered… - Cognitive Functioning in …, 2022 - Springer
Risk for psychosis begins to accumulate as early as the fetal period through exposure to
obstetric complications like fetal hypoxia, maternal stress, and prenatal infection. Stressors …

Falsification of internal and external validity in observational studies via conditional moment restrictions

Z Hussain, MC Shih, M Oberst… - International …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
Abstract Randomized Controlled Trials (RCT) s are relied upon to assess new treatments,
but suffer from limited power to guide personalized treatment decisions. On the other hand …

Understanding the educational disparities between Han and Muslim Chinese: The roles of gender, ethnic salience, and residential concentration

Z Mu - Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 2024 - Elsevier
This study, using a 10% sample from China's 1% inter-census population surveys for 2015,
examines patterns of educational disparities between Han and Muslim Chinese. I use …

A mixed-methods investigation examining site-level variation in reach out and read implementation

ME Jimenez, JR Hemler, N Uthirasamy, A Bator… - Academic pediatrics, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Objective Reach Out and Read (ROR) is an evidence-based early childhood
intervention that has been implemented at scale, yet description of ROR implementation is …

“忧郁的孩子们”: 课外补习会带来负向情绪吗?——基于中国教育追踪调查(CEPS) 两期数据的因果推断

李适源, 刘爱玉 - 社会杂志, 2022 - society.shu.edu.cn
本文关注中国大陆中学生课外补习参与及其负向情绪生成的因果关系. 本文基于中国教育追踪
调查两期数据, 借助工具变量等方法来化解内生性偏误, 在量化层面上回答了课外补习参与“是否 …

Dual pathways of intergenerational influence over multiple generations

Q Huang, X Song, Y Xie - Chinese Sociological Review, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The traditional approach to studying intergenerational influences has been limited to a
single-stranded framework, with a focus on the transmission of socioeconomic status across …

Resilience-promoting policies and contexts for children of color in the United States: Existing research and future priorities

N Slopen, DR Williams - Development and Psychopathology, 2021 - cambridge.org
The health status of children in the United States varies by racial and ethnic, shaped by an
interrelated set of systems that disadvantage children of color in the United States. In this …

Childhood disadvantage, neurocognitive development and neuropsychiatric disorders: Evidence of mechanisms

J Yu, RA Patel, SE Gilman - Current opinion in psychiatry, 2021 - journals.lww.com
Many of the factors that contribute to the excess risk of neurodevelopmental and
neuropsychiatric problems among children in disadvantaged households are potentially …

Behavioral and Socioemotional Outcomes of the Legacy for Children™ Randomized Control Trial to Promote Healthy Development of Children Living in Poverty, 4 to …

CM Barry, LR Robinson, JW Kaminski… - … of Developmental & …, 2022 - journals.lww.com
Objective: The objective of this article was to assess the impact on behavioral and
socioemotional development, 4 to 6 years postintervention (depending on the curriculum), of …