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Why do economists so dislike "conditional independence"?

Why do economists so dislike "conditional independence"?

A humble theory from an economist

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scott cunningham
Jan 04, 2023
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One of the first causal methods we ever learn in statistics class is to “control for X”. We can use a regression that controls for X, and if we wonder what that means, we need only review the Frisch-Waugh-Lovell theorem to see what a multivariate regression is equivalent to. As you progress, you may learn that there are a whole range of estimators, tho…

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