التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Revisiting the effects of maternal education on adolescents' academic performance: Doubly robust estimation in a network-based observational study. |
| المؤلفون: |
McNealis, Vanessa1 (AUTHOR) vanessa.mcnealis@mail.mcgill.ca, Moodie, Erica E M1 (AUTHOR), Dean, Nema2 (AUTHOR) |
| المصدر: |
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series C (Applied Statistics). Jun2024, Vol. 73 Issue 3, p715-734. 20p. |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
ACADEMIC achievement, TEENAGERS, TEENAGE girls, CAUSAL inference, SCIENTIFIC observation, EDUCATIONAL attainment |
| مستخلص: |
In many contexts, particularly when study subjects are adolescents, peer effects can invalidate typical statistical requirements in the data. For instance, it is plausible that a student's academic performance is influenced both by their own mother's educational level as well as that of their peers. Since the underlying social network is measured, the Add Health study provides a unique opportunity to examine the impact of maternal college education on adolescent school performance, both direct and indirect. However, causal inference on populations embedded in social networks poses technical challenges, since the typical no interference assumption no longer holds. While inverse probability-of-treatment weighted (IPW) estimators have been developed for this setting, they are often highly unstable. Motivated by the question of maternal education, we propose doubly robust (DR) estimators combining models for treatment and outcome that are consistent and asymptotically normal if either model is correctly specified. We present empirical results that illustrate the DR property and the efficiency gain of DR over IPW estimators even when the treatment model is misspecified. Contrary to previous studies, our robust analysis does not provide evidence of an indirect effect of maternal education on academic performance within adolescents' social circles in Add Health. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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