Abstract Als Folge der verstärkten Erwerbsorientierung und der demographischen Veränderungen werden individuelle Care-Verpflichtungen zunehmend ausgelagert und statt als Familienarbeit im Rahmen von marktlich organisierten Care-Arrangements bearbeitet. Die Care-Arbeiterinnen sind oftmals...

Zusammenfassung Auf dem Arbeitsmarkt existieren nach wie vor bestimmte soziale Ungleichheiten zwischen Frauen und Männern, etwa im Hinblick auf die Verortung in unterschiedlichen Berufen und hierarchischen Positionen sowie Verdienste. Andockend an die bisherige Forschung, fragen wir nach der...

VanderWeele et al.'s paper is a useful contribution to the on-going scientific conversation about the detection of contagion from purely observational data. It is especially helpful as a corrective to some of the more extreme statements of Lyons (2011). Unfortunately, this paper, too, goes too...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the role of qualitative research in causality, with particular emphasis on process causality. In one paper, it is not possible to discuss all the issues of causality, but the aim is to provide useful ways of thinking about causality and qualitative...

Abstract The paper considers the properties of and relations between confounding and effect modification from the perspective of causal inference and with a distinction drawn as to how each of these two epidemiologic concepts can be defined both with respect to a distribution of potential...

Abstract Mediation analysis is widely adopted to infer causal mechanism by disentangling indirect or mediated effects of an exposure on an outcome through given intermediaries, from the remaining direct effect. Traditional approaches build on standard regression models for the outcome and...

Abstract The between-within (BW) model is a popular regression model for twin data. Despite its popularity, the properties of the BW model have not yet been thoroughly investigated, and most reviews are largely heuristic. The aim of this paper is to provide a formal guide to the causal...

Abstract For decades, social scientists have been trying to answer causal questions about the effectiveness of certain programs or policies. The conventional methodology for answering such causal questions relies on the “no interference between different units” assumption; that is, a...

Abstract Robins et al. (2004 , Comparative Quantification of Health Risks: Global and Regional Burden of Disease Attributable to Selected Major Risk Factors. Geneva: World Health Organization) introduced the extended g-formula to estimate from observational data the risk of failure under...

Abstract In a recent article, VanderWeele and Vansteelandt (American Journal of Epidemiology, 2010, 172:1339–1348) (hereafter VWV) build on results due to Judea Pearl on causal mediation analysis and derive simple closed-form expressions for so-called natural direct and indirect effects in an...