13:15 - 15:30
Thursday-Panel
Chair/s:
Sebastian Juhl
Discussant/s:
Vera Eva Troeger
Meeting Room D

Sebastian Juhl
Spatial Eigenfunction Modeling of Geo-Referenced Data in the Social Sciences

Janina Beiser-McGrath, Liam Beiser-McGrath
The Consequences of Model Misspecification for the Estimation of Non-Linear Interaction Effects

Alessia Damonte
Qualitative Comparative Analysis and causal knowledge
Qualitative Comparative Analysis and causal knowledge
Alessia Damonte
University of Milan

As the Structural Causal Model framework posits, the claim that a 'treatment' has causal relevance calls for a model that specifies the conditions or attributes of responsive units. The work builds on this tenet to clarify the contribution of Qualitative Comparative Analysis to causal knowledge. It recasts the rationale, operations, and criteria of QCA to show that the technique can be geared to identifying credible causal models, and its solutions can fit causal graphs.