Causal Inference, Selection Bias, and Their Implications for Legal Theory and Practice

因果推理的新发展彻底改变了我们使用数据、统计和研究设计的方式，并提供了一套新的定性和定量工具来研究社会科学中长期存在的问题。这些方法被应用的背景之一是实证法律研究的跨学科领域，其重要性反映在过去二十年中出现的该领域的一些高质量同行评议期刊上。本项目将运用因果推理的最新工具和方法来解决社会科学中的各种问题，并试图提供一个严格和统一的框架来定量研究不平等和正义。

New developments of causal inference have revolutionized the way we use data, statistics, and research design and provided a new suite of qualitative and quantitative tools to study long-standing questions in the social sciences. One of the contexts in which these methods are being applied is the interdisciplinary field of empirical legal studies, the importance of which is reflected in a number of high-quality peer-reviewed journals in this area emerging over the past two decades. This project will apply recent tools and methods in causal inference to a variety of problems in the social sciences and try to provide a rigorous and unifying framework to study inequality and justice quantitatively.