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| Title: | | On the Role of Counterfactuals in Inferring Causal Effects of Treatments  |
| Authors: | | Kluve, Jochen |
| Issue Date: | | 2001 |
| Series/Report no.: | | IZA Discussion paper series 354 |
| Abstract: | | Causal inference in the empirical sciences is based on counterfactuals. This paper presents the counterfactual account of causation in terms of Lewis's possible-world semantics, and reformulates the statistical potential outcome framework and its underlying assumptions using counterfactual conditionals. I discuss varieties of causally meaningful counterfactuals for the case of a finite number of treatments, and illustrate these using a simple settheoretical framework. The paper proceeds to examine proximity relations between possible worlds, and discusses implications for empirical practice. |
| Subjects: | | Causation counterfactuals possible worlds treatment effect |
| JEL: | | B30 C19 Z00 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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