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IJE Advance Access originally published online on October 19, 2007
International Journal of Epidemiology 2007 36(6):1253-1254; doi:10.1093/ije/dym190
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Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association © The Author 2007; all rights reserved.

Commentary: Human well-being and causality in social epidemiology

Andrew J Oswald

Department of Economics, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK. E-mail: andrew.oswald@warwick.ac.uk

Accepted 21 August 2007

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Economists have much to learn from social epidemiologists. But perhaps economists can teach epidemiologists some useful things.

My profession is not alone in being obsessed with cause and effect. Economists teach students from their first university term about identification theory, instrumental variables, and why classical ordinary least squares regression equations will produce the wrong answers if some of the independent variables are endogenously determined. An oft-used example is in equations where the dependent variable is people's rates of pay and one of the independent variables is their level of education. Education is endogenous––chosen by the person. So we . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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