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Abstract #303464

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Activity Number: 495
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Thursday, August 11, 2005 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
Sponsor: Social Statistics Section
Abstract - #303464
Title: Use of Constructed Observational Studies To Assess Ignorability
Author(s): Jennifer Hill*+
Companies: Columbia University
Address: 420 W 118th St, New YOrk, NY, 10027, United States
Keywords: observational study ; experiment ; causal ; evaluation ; matching
Abstract:

The development of nonexperimental methods to estimate causal effects from observational data is a thriving, if controversial, industry in both statistics and the social sciences. These methods, however, need to be evaluated using real data in order to trust they can work in practice. One way to do this is to construct an observational study using experimental data where the randomized control group is replaced by a comparison group formed by some other means, for example, from survey data. We use just such a "constructed observational study" to evaluate the efficacy of competing non experimental techniques in the context of an educational policy study. This will in turn allow us to speculate about the appropriateness of the assumption of ignorability.

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