Causal inference in the social sciences

GW Imbens - Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Knowledge of causal effects is of great importance to decision makers in a wide variety of
settings. In many cases, however, these causal effects are not known to the decision makers …

Long-tailed classification by keeping the good and removing the bad momentum causal effect

K Tang, J Huang, H Zhang - Advances in neural information …, 2020 - proceedings.neurips.cc
As the class size grows, maintaining a balanced dataset across many classes is challenging
because the data are long-tailed in nature; it is even impossible when the sample-of-interest …

Unbiased scene graph generation from biased training

K Tang, Y Niu, J Huang, J Shi… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Today's scene graph generation (SGG) task is still far from practical, mainly due to the
severe training bias, eg, collapsing diverse" human walk on/sit on/lay on beach" into" human …

Lagged explanatory variables and the estimation of causal effect

MF Bellemare, T Masaki… - The Journal of Politics, 2017 - journals.uchicago.edu
Lagged explanatory variables are commonly used in political science in response to
endogeneity concerns in observational data. There exist surprisingly few formal analyses or …

Layout-based causal inference for object navigation

S Zhang, X Song, W Li, Y Bai, X Yu… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Previous works for ObjectNav task attempt to learn the association (eg relation graph)
between the visual inputs and the goal during training. Such association contains the prior …

Do voters polarize when radical parties enter parliament?

D Bischof, M Wagner - American Journal of Political Science, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Do voters polarize ideologically when radical views gain political legitimacy, or does the rise
of radical voices merely reflect societal conflict? We argue that elite polarization as signaled …

The causal interpretation of estimated associations in regression models

L Keele, RT Stevenson, F Elwert - Political Science Research and …, 2020 - cambridge.org
A common causal identification strategy in political science is selection on observables. This
strategy assumes one observes a set of covariates that is, after statistical adjustment …

De-bias for generative extraction in unified NER task

S Zhang, Y Shen, Z Tan, Y Wu… - Proceedings of the 60th …, 2022 - aclanthology.org
Named entity recognition (NER) is a fundamental task to recognize specific types of entities
from a given sentence. Depending on how the entities appear in the sentence, it can be …

Causal empiricism in quantitative research

C Samii - The Journal of Politics, 2016 - journals.uchicago.edu
Quantitative analysis of causal effects in political science has trended toward the adoption of
“causal empiricist” approaches. Such approaches place heavy emphasis on causal …

Identifying culture as cause: Challenges and opportunities

S Lonati, R Lalive, C Efferson - Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2024 - cambridge.org
Causal inference lies at the core of many scientific endeavours. Yet, answering causal
questions is challenging, especially when studying culture as a causal force. Against this …