{"id":1000,"date":"2013-11-10T04:50:41","date_gmt":"2013-11-10T11:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mii.ucla.edu\/causality\/?p=1000"},"modified":"2013-11-10T04:50:41","modified_gmt":"2013-11-10T11:50:41","slug":"reflections-on-heckman-and-pintos-causal-analysis-after-haavelmo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/11\/10\/reflections-on-heckman-and-pintos-causal-analysis-after-haavelmo\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflections on Heckman and Pinto&#8217;s &#8220;Causal Analysis After Haavelmo&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent article by Heckman and Pinto (HP) (link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nber.org\/papers\/w19453.pdf\" target=\"_\">http:\/\/www.nber.org\/papers\/w19453.pdf<\/a>) discusses the do-calculus as a formal operationalization of Haavelmo&#8217;s approach to policy intervention. HP replace the do-operator with an equivalent operator, called &#8220;fix,&#8221; which simulates a Fisherian experiment with randomized &#8220;do&#8221;. They advocate the use of &#8220;fix,&#8221; discover limitations in &#8220;do,&#8221; and inform readers that those limitations disappear in &#8220;the Haavelmo approach.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>I examine the logic of HP&#8217;s paper, its factual basis, and its impact on econometric research and education (link: <a href=\"http:\/\/ftp.cs.ucla.edu\/pub\/stat_ser\/r420.pdf\" target=\"_\">http:\/\/ftp.cs.ucla.edu\/pub\/stat_ser\/r420.pdf<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent article by Heckman and Pinto (HP) (link: http:\/\/www.nber.org\/papers\/w19453.pdf) discusses the do-calculus as a formal operationalization of Haavelmo&#8217;s approach to policy intervention. HP replace the do-operator with an equivalent operator, called &#8220;fix,&#8221; which simulates a Fisherian experiment with randomized &#8220;do&#8221;. They advocate the use of &#8220;fix,&#8221; discover limitations in &#8220;do,&#8221; and inform readers that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6,10,12,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcement","category-counterfactual","category-definition","category-do-calculus","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}