Does Obesity Shorten Life? Or is it the Soda? On Non-manipulable Causes

Non-manipulable factors, such as gender or race have posed conceptual and practical challenges to causal analysts. On the one hand these factors do have consequences, and on the other hand, they do not fit into the experimentalist conception of causation. This paper addresses this challenge in the c...

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Main Author: Pearl Judea
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2018-09-01
Series:Journal of Causal Inference
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/jci-2018-2001