When Do Traditional and Causal Decomposition Methods Diverge? A Practical Guide for Studying Health Disparities
传统分解与因果分解何时分歧?健康差异研究的实用指南
Identifying malleable factors that can reduce social disparities is a central objective among researchers across disciplines. Traditionally, researchers have relied on the difference-in-coefficients and Kitagawa-Oaxaca-Blinder frameworks. More recently, methods grounded in the potential outcomes framework have emerged. While these methods share the same goal of identifying drivers of disparity, they frequently yield divergent results depending on the underlying confounding…