This document discusses causality and causal modelling in the social sciences. It addresses five philosophical questions about causality and five scientific problems in establishing causation. Causality is a complex concept that cannot be reduced to a single definition, and different causal methods use various concepts like probabilistic causality, counterfactuals, and concomitant variation. Causal models are used to detect relationships between variables, explain phenomena, and inform interventions. Epistemologically, causal discovery relies on reasoning about variations, differences, and changes to identify potential causes.
TRAGEDY OF COMMON IN THAT THE PEOPLE ARE HOW USE NATURAL RESOURCES HOW CARELESS ABOUT THAT AND HOW ITS EFFECT ON FUTURE, ENVIRONMENT NATURE , HUMAN AND LIVING SYSTEM
Since pollution is an externality firms will not undertake to control their pollution. The answer is in government regulations. Coase argues that in perfect competition with laissez faire, govt regulation is not needed. Instead bargaining between the polluters and their victims can lead to an optimal situation. But this pre supposes equality in bargaining, and does not take note of ecological consequences of pollution.
TRAGEDY OF COMMON IN THAT THE PEOPLE ARE HOW USE NATURAL RESOURCES HOW CARELESS ABOUT THAT AND HOW ITS EFFECT ON FUTURE, ENVIRONMENT NATURE , HUMAN AND LIVING SYSTEM
Since pollution is an externality firms will not undertake to control their pollution. The answer is in government regulations. Coase argues that in perfect competition with laissez faire, govt regulation is not needed. Instead bargaining between the polluters and their victims can lead to an optimal situation. But this pre supposes equality in bargaining, and does not take note of ecological consequences of pollution.
Ragui Assaad- University of Minnesota
Caroline Krafft- ST. Catherine University
ERF Training on Applied Micro-Econometrics and Public Policy Evaluation
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An efficient allocation of resources that adequately accounts for natural capital. Traditional economics (including environmental economics - defined as the application of traditional economics to environmental problems) has focused on a third of these problems (efficient allocation) and therefore has not fully addressed the issue of sustainable development.
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Ragui Assaad- University of Minnesota
Caroline Krafft- ST. Catherine University
ERF Training on Applied Micro-Econometrics and Public Policy Evaluation
Cairo, Egypt July 25-27, 2016
www.erf.org.eg
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a) informed about the historical emergence of environmental justice as a social movement;
b) able to generate a definition of environmental justice from Bangladeshi context;
c) propose development to the Environment Court Act, 2010
d) learn about a leading case ensuring Environmental Justice in Bangladesh
Focus Group Discussions (FGDs) are defined as semi structured group discussions, which yield qualitative data on the community level by facilitating interaction between participants.
Ragui Assaad- University of Minnesota
Caroline Krafft- ST. Catherine University
ERF Training on Applied Micro-Econometrics and Public Policy Evaluation
Cairo, Egypt July 25-27, 2016
www.erf.org.eg
An efficient allocation of resources that adequately accounts for natural capital. Traditional economics (including environmental economics - defined as the application of traditional economics to environmental problems) has focused on a third of these problems (efficient allocation) and therefore has not fully addressed the issue of sustainable development.
A presentation by the Chronic Poverty Research Centre from the 2009 BASIS Conference on "Escaping Poverty Traps: Connecting the Chronically Poor to the Economic Growth Agenda."
Ragui Assaad- University of Minnesota
Caroline Krafft- ST. Catherine University
ERF Training on Applied Micro-Econometrics and Public Policy Evaluation
Cairo, Egypt July 25-27, 2016
www.erf.org.eg
Learning Outcome: After completion of this lesson, students will be -
a) informed about the historical emergence of environmental justice as a social movement;
b) able to generate a definition of environmental justice from Bangladeshi context;
c) propose development to the Environment Court Act, 2010
d) learn about a leading case ensuring Environmental Justice in Bangladesh
Focus Group Discussions (FGDs) are defined as semi structured group discussions, which yield qualitative data on the community level by facilitating interaction between participants.
Causality is a central notion in the sciences. It is at the core of a number of epistemic practices such as explanation, prediction, or reasoning. The recognition of a plurality of practices calls, in turn, for a pluralistic approach to causality. In the ‘mosaic’ approach, as developed by Illari and Russo (2014), we need to select the causal account that best fits the practice at hand, and in the specific context. For instance, the concept of (causal) mechanism helps with explanatory practices in fields such as biology or neuroscience. Or, the concept of (causal) process helps with tracing ‘world-line’ trajectories in physics contexts or in social science. While no single notion of causality can simultaneously meet the requirements for a good explanation, prediction, or reasoning across different contexts and practices, a pluralistic approach towards the epistemology of causality seems to be the most plausible and attractive solution.
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5. Causal assessment
‘What Causes What’
Different things we may want to establish:
what’s the cause of a patient’s illness
who is (legally / morally) responsible for some state of affairs
what are the causes of unemployment
what causes marriage dissolution or migration behaviour
what causes dysfunction in an organisation
which pathways explain some cellular behaviour
…
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6. Goals of causal analysis
Knowledge-oriented
Understand and explain a
phenomenon of interest
Action-oriented
Predict, intervene on, control a
phenomenon of interest
Design / model / debug a
system / environment
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7. Do causes need to be causes?
Consider:
Smoking and cancer are associated. Should I quit smoking?
Smoking causes cancer. Should I quit smoking?
Causes trigger actions. Mere beliefs can’t, nor mere associations.
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8. Scientific practice first
CitS / PSP / PI
Philosophical questions about causation (and other
topics) are motivated by methodological and
practical problems in real science
Start from scientific practice to bottom up
philosophy
Partly descriptive and partly normative
No conceptual ‘straightjacket’
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9. 5 philosophical questions
Metaphysics
What is causality? What kind of things
are causes and effects?
Semantics
What does it mean that C causes E?
Epistemology
What notions guide causal reasoning?
How can we use C to explain E?
Methodology
How to establish whether C causes E?
Or how much of C causes E?
Use
What to do once we know that C
causes E?
5 scientific problems
Inference
Does C cause E? To what extent?
Prediction
What to expect if C does (not) cause
E?
Explanation
How does C cause or prevent E?
Control
What factors to hold fixed to study the
relation between C and E?
Reasoning
What considerations enter in
establishing whether / how / to what
extent C causes E?
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11. How many concepts? Many!
Causality
Polysemic, thick concept
Causal verbs
Pulling, pushing, binding, …
Causal methods
Tracking what varies with what
Understanding what produces what, and how, and when
Different sources of evidence
Evidence of difference making, of production
…
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16. ‘Statistical’ causes
Gather a large number of observations,
organise them in variables
E.g. socio-biological characteristics (exposure) and cancer
rates (disease)
Study the (in)dependencies between variables,
robustness and stability of correlations
Establish stable patterns of (in)dependencies
to identify risk factors and possible interventions
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17. What does a causal model do?
A causal model:
models the properties of a (social) system
detects (causal) relations between the properties of
the system
explains the functioning of the system through its
causes
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19. Structural equations and explanation
Y=X+
X, Y : explanatory and response variables
Xs explain Y
Xs are relevant causal factors in the causal
mechanism
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21. Causal discovery is reasoning about variations.
To establish causes we need difference.
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22. ‘Statistical’ variations
“Gather data about socio-economic status, occupation,
diet, smoking behaviour and see how steadily they
are associated with cancer”
Study how variations in exposure are related to
variations in disease
How different levels of exposure change the probability
of disease
Statistical reasoning: search for those factors explaining
the variance of the outcome
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24. Variations in Mill
Agreement:
comparing different instances in which the
phenomenon occurs.
Difference:
comparing instances in which the
phenomenon does occur with similar
instances in which it does not.
Residues:
subducting from any given phenomenon all
the portions which can be assigned to
known causes, the remainder will be the
effect of the antecedents which had been
overlooked or of which the effect was as
yet an un-known quantity.
Concomitant Variation:
in presence of permanent causes or
indestructible natural agents that are
impossible either to exclude or to isolate,
we can neither hinder them from being
present nor contrive that they shall be
present alone. Comparison between
concomitant variations will enable us to
detect the causes.
Mill (1843), System of Logic
The experimental method is based
on the Baconian rule of varying
the circumstances
The Four Methods are all based on
the evaluation of variations
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25. Variations in Durkheim
Durkheim (1897), Le suicide
A study into the variability of suicide rate
A search for the causes making suicide rate vary
Durkheim (1885), Les règles de la méthode sociologique
The method of concomitant variations
makes sociology scientific
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26. Learning ‘ordinary’ causes
Humean regularity
Instances of smoke follow instances of fire
Can’t establish logical, necessary link
Create expectation, project causal belief onto the future
Epistemology of causal modelling seems to be at
variance with the Humean account
See next
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27. Learning ‘scientific’ causes
Causal discovery (experiments, statistics)
Search for differences
Explaining differences
Variation, difference, comes first
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28. Regularity too
Statistical regularity
Causal methodology needs regularity as a constraint on
variations, differences
Scientific causes are ‘generic’
Population-level, repeatable
Hence we need regularity to establish generic level
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30. Inference, Prediction,
Explanation, Control,
Reasoning
Causal Mosaic
Metaphysics, Semantics,
Epistemology,
Methodology, Use
Necessary
and
sufficient Levels
Evidence
Probabilis
tic
causality
Counterfa
ctuals
Manipulat
ion
Invariance
Exogeneit
y
Simpson’s
Paradox
Process
Mechanism
Informati
on
Dispositio
ns
Regularity
Variation
Action
Inference
Validity
Truth
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31. Philosophical theory meets scientific practice
Scientific practice first
Then, be precise about your question, target specific
scientific challenges
Causal pluralism, in the form of ‘causal mosaic’, is a
sophisticated philosophical view
Methodology of causality is rich and diverse
Choose the method best adapted to your problem
Epistemology of causality is about how we find out about
causes
Variation guides causal reasoning in various forms
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