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This research aims to improve causal inference methods for continuous treatments, addressing issues of positivity constraints and effect variability.

June 28, 2026Sociological MethodologyOpen Access

Causal Inference with a Continuous Treatment: Addressing Positivity Constraints, Nonlinearity, and Effect Heterogeneity

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ILIan LundbergUniversity of California, Los Angeles JBJennie E. BrandUniversity of California, Los Angeles

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Randomized trial shows how an additive shift estimand addresses causal inference challenges in continuous treatments, highlighting implications for social inequality research.

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This research aims to improve causal inference methods for continuous treatments, addressing issues of positivity constraints and effect variability.
Adopts an additive shift estimand to adjust continuous treatment outcomes.
Estimates patterns of nonlinearity and effect heterogeneity.
Uses parental income as a case for examining college attendance outcomes.
Demonstrated that traditional approaches to causal inference may produce intractable estimands due to confounding.
Showed that the additive shift estimand provides clearer insights into the effects of parental income on college attendance.

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Lundberg et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a40b99561bb0a67205c5c2e https://doi.org/10.1177/00811750261459364

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Randomized trial shows how an additive shift estimand addresses causal inference challenges in continuous treatments, highlighting implications for social inequality research.

Causal Inference with a Continuous Treatment: Addressing Positivity Constraints, Nonlinearity, and Effect Heterogeneity

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Causal Inference with a Continuous Treatment: Addressing Positivity Constraints, Nonlinearity, and Effect Heterogeneity

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