Identification and estimation of causal peer effects using double negative controls for unmeasured network confounding
利用双重负对照识别与估计存在未测网络混杂的同伴因果效应
Abstract Identification and estimation of causal peer effects are challenging in observational studies for two reasons. The first is the identification challenge due to unmeasured network confounding, for example, homophily bias and contextual confounding. The second is network dependence of observations. We establish a framework that leverages a pair of negative control outcome and exposure variables (double negative controls) to non-parametrically identify causal peer…