Revisiting the effects of maternal education on adolescents' academic performance: Doubly robust estimation in a network-based observational study.

ABSTRACT: In many contexts, particularly when study subjects are adolescents, peer effects can invalidate typical statistical requirements in the data. For instance, it is plausible that a student's academic performance is influenced both by their own mother's educational level as well as that of their peers. Since the underlying social network is measured, the Add Health study provides a unique opportunity to examine the impact of maternal college education on adolescent school performance, both direct and indirect. However, causal inference on populations embedded in social networks poses technical challenges, since the typical no interference assumption no longer holds. While inverse probability-of-treatment weighted (IPW) estimators have been developed for this setting, they are often highly uns

SUBMITTER: McNealis V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11175826 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature