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...professor of economics at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. "But these are two separate issues, and there's no reason to think they're related." In fact, a 1998 study by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign economist Kevin Hallock, published in the American Economic Review, found no causal relationship between layoffs and CEO pay increases, even though the two often happen together. --By Barbara Kiviat
Over the last ten to fifteen years, Rubin has continued to be an innovator. The “Rubin Causal Model” gives people who were confused about how to think about effects a framework in which to consider them. Elizabeth Stuart, a graduate student under Rubin and a Teaching Fellow for his Quantative Reasoning 33 core, “Causal Inference,” attests to the flexibility of Rubin’s work. “Now [Rubin’s Model] is the standard for thinking about causal effects in economics...
...there is a big difference between a statistical link and a causal relationship. It's entirely possible that breast cancer was creating the women's need for antibiotics (rather than the other way around) by undermining the immune system, for example. Or that an underlying problem--perhaps chronic inflammation--was making the women's bodies a breeding ground for both bacterial infections and tumors. It's worth noting that the antibiotics users were, on average, older and heavier, had stronger family histories of cancer and were more likely to use hormone-replacement therapy--all risk factors for breast cancer...
Knapp, who spoke of her sister’s 10-year struggle with anorexia, drew a direct causal link...
...those Republican House impeachment managers, who feigned outrage at Bill Clinton’s escapades, yet were on the record defending Oliver North’s lies to Congress in the Iran-Contra affair? Indeed, the asymmetry between the Right’s panicked attitude about sex and its causal stance on violence is reflected in the basic partisan dichotomy of scandal in this country: in our lifetimes, Democratic scandals tend to be sexual, while Republican ones are often violent. It was in 1984, the year most college sophomores were born, that Gary Hart’s presidential candidacy imploded...