Characterizing the Effects of Environmental Exposures on Social Mobility: Bayesian Semi-parametrics for Principal Stratification
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环境暴露对社会流动的影响：主分层的贝叶斯半参数方法
- 研究问题
- 当教育程度受空气污染暴露影响且关联社会流动时，如何定义并估计不同教育响应主分层中的污染因果效应？
- 方法与思路
- 作者采用主分层定义因果对象，并以无限混合构造贝叶斯半参数结果模型，灵活刻画潜在结果分布和进行反事实插补。
- 材料陈述的贡献
- 摘要称方法改善反事实插补并刻画不同主分层效应；美国县级应用报告教育受损层与教育不变层分别约有5%和2%的流动下降。
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- 应核对主分层如何由潜在教育结果定义、不可观测层的识别假设、先验与插补敏感性，以及县级效应和报告百分比的含义。
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- 这是预印本，同行评审或期刊接收未核实。摘要未说明主分层识别条件，层内效应及教育不变层结果不能直接确证具体中介路径。
原文摘要
Understanding the causal effects of air pollution exposures on social mobility is attracting increasing attention. At the same time, education is widely recognized as a key driver of social mobility. However, the causal pathways linking fine particulate matter (PM2.5) exposure, educational attainment, and social mobility remain largely unexplored. To address this, we adopt the principal stratification approach, which rigorously defines causal effects when a post-treatment variable--educational attainment--is affected by exposure--PM2.5--and may, in turn, affect the primary outcome--social mobility. To estimate the causal effects, we propose a Bayesian semi-parametric method leveraging infinite mixtures for modeling the primary outcome. The proposed method (i) allows flexible modeling of the distribution of the primary potential outcomes, (ii) improves the accuracy of counterfactual imputation--a fundamental problem in causal inference framework--, and (iii) enables the characterization of treatment effects across different values of the post-treatment variable. We evaluate the performance of the proposed methodology through a Monte Carlo simulation study, demonstrating its advantages over existing approaches. Finally, we apply our method to a national dataset of 3,009 counties in the United States to estimate the causal effect of PM2.5 on social mobility, taking into account educational attainment as a post-treatment variable. Our findings indicate that in counties where higher PM2.5 exposure significantly reduces educational attainment social mobility decreases by approximately 5% compared to counties with lower PM2.5 exposure. We also find that in counties where exposure to PM2.5 does not affect educational attainment, social mobility is reduced by approximately 2% hinting at the possibility of further, yet unexplored, pathways connecting air pollution and social mobility.