Context: Age, period and birth cohort (APC) effects have been known for decades in
biological, health and social sciences. However, exact collinearity between these three …

Originating in econometrics and statistics, the counterfactual model provides a natural
framework for clarifying the requirements for valid causal inference in the social sciences …

This book will support you through each milestone of your research project with step-by-step
instructions to doing qualitative research. Whatever type of data or data collection method …

Despite substantial public, political, and scholarly attention to the issue of immigration and
crime, we know little about the criminological consequences of undocumented immigration …

This book is intended to fill a gap in the literature on research methods in the social
sciences. To date, methods textbooks have yet to formally incorporate population-based …

In this second edition of Counterfactuals and Causal Inference, completely revised and
expanded, the essential features of the counterfactual approach to observational data …

The concept of social capital is arguably the most successful “export” from sociology into the
public domain in recent years. Ironically, that feat was not accomplished by the major …

We need a desirable level of sustainable national economic development without
environmental degradation. The key objective of this study is to explore the causal nexus in …

This text is addressed to the practicing librarian and other information professionals who
need to conduct research and publish. It is intended to provide guidance for any librarian …

Ecological modernization theory posits that even though economic development harms the
environment, the magnitude of the harmful link decreases over the course of development …