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Green, Ha, & Bullock on Regression Models of Mediation

By Lawrence Solum

Donald P. Green, Shang E. Ha, and John G Bullock (Yale University, Brooklyn College - CUNY, Yale University and Department of Political Science, Yale University) have posted Enough Already About "Black Box" Experiments: Studying Mediation is More Difficult than Most Scholars Suppose (Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Forthcoming) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:

Recent years have seen growing enthusiasm for regression models that purport to establish claims about mediation. Despite their growing popularity, these regression models rest on naive assumptions. The point of this essay is to puncture the widely held view that it is a relatively simple matter to establish the mechanism by which causality is transmitted. This means puncturing the faith that has been placed in commonly used statistical methods of establishing mediation.

Full post as published by Legal Theory Blog on February 05, 2010 (boomark / email).