Causal Analysis in Population Studies : Concepts, Methods, Applications (The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis 23) (2009. VIII, 252 S. 235 mm)

The counterfactual approach to estimate effects of causes from quasi-experimental data or from observational studies was first proposed by Rubin in 1974 and further developed by James Heckman and others.This book presents both theoretical contributions and empirical applications of the counterfactual approach to causal inference.