Otis Dudley Duncan's legacy: The demographic approach to quantitative reasoning in social science☆
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Otis Dudley Duncan, who died in November 2004, had enormous impact on the practice of quantitative reasoning in sociology and demography today as mentioned in this paper, and the influence of Duncan as a quantitative sociologist within the context of the history of science.About:
This article is published in Research in Social Stratification and Mobility.The article was published on 2007-04-01 and is currently open access. It has received 40 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Population & Philosophy of social science.read more
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Who Benefits Most from College?: Evidence for Negative Selection in Heterogeneous Economic Returns to Higher Education
Jennie E. Brand,Yu Xie +1 more
TL;DR: How the economic return to a college education varies across members of the U.S. population is considered and evidence suggesting negative selection is found is found.
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The History of Statistics. The Measurement of Uncertainty before 1900.
TL;DR: The History of StatisticsThe history of Statistics in the 17th and 18th CenturiesThe Politics of Large NumbersStatistics on the TableFiguring Out The PastDicing with DeathHow to Lie with StatisticsAnnotated Readings in the History of statistics.
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Estimating Heterogeneous Treatment Effects with Observational Data
Yu Xie,Jennie E. Brand,Ben Jann +2 more
TL;DR: A practical approach to studying heterogeneous treatment effects as a function of the treatment propensity, under the same assumption commonly underlying regression analysis: ignorability is discussed.
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The foundations of causal inference
TL;DR: This paper reviewed recent advances in the foundations of causal inference and introduced a systematic methodology for defining, estimating, and testing causal claims in experimental and observational studies based on nonparametric structural equation models.
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On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or, The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life
TL;DR: The "Penguin Classics" edition of "On the Origin of Species" as discussed by the authors contains an introduction and notes by William Bynum, and features a cover designed by Damien Hirst.
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Statistics and Causal Inference
TL;DR: In this article, the authors use a particular model for causal inference (Holland and Rubin 1983; Rubin 1974) to critique the discussions of other writers on causation and causal inference.
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The American occupational structure
Peter M. Blau,Otis Dudley Duncan +1 more
TL;DR: The American Occupational Structure is renowned for its pioneering methods of statistical analysis as well as for its far-reaching conclusions about social stratification and occupational mobility in the United States.