Causal Inference in Studies of Sociology of Education

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  • 教育社会学における因果推論
  • キョウイク シャカイガク ニ オケル インガ スイロン

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<p>This study reviews research on causal analysis in sociology of education. In particular, it focuses on the following studies related to both sociology of education and social stratification: (1) educational inequality, (2) school and tracking effects, (3) neighborhood effects, (4) causal effects and heterogeneous causal effects of education, (5) social mobility and education, (6) single parenthood, and (7) multigenerational mobility. These studies have dealt with the difficulty of identifying causal effects and applied several methods of causal inference developed in statistics and other social science disciplines to sociological studies. Moreover, the studies have focused not only on identifying and estimating the causal effects, but also on understanding other structural sources such as confounding and selection processes that produce the associations. Based on this literature review, this paper highlights the future tasks of causal inference using observational data and discusses the usefulness of the causal inference framework in comprehending social and sociological phenomena.</p>

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