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Dr. Jay Kaufman, McGill University, Professor of Epidemiology
Theme: Population Health
Title of Talk: How to Break Something by Fixing It
Abstract: Population centers, like the OSU IPR, are enriched by the interface between disciplines and the exchange of methods and ways of thinking from one academic culture to another. One of the more interesting and dynamic interfaces at places like the IPR is between epidemiology and economics, fields with rich but distinct traditions of data analysis and causal discovery. I will describe some of the differences in worldview between these fields, and then illustrate with the handling of clustering, as both an analytic challenge (hierarchical data) and as a design strategy (matching). Causal tools from one discipline reveal the limitations and dangers of the practices that characterize the other. I review the good, the bad and the ugly from fixed effects designs like exposure-discordant siblings, and how insights from both epidemiology and economics balance the pros and cons of this method in health research.
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