Impacts of interlocked contractual arrangements on dairy farmers' welfare in Zambia: a robust Bayesian instrumental variable analysis

RN Kiwanuka-Lubinda, JN Ng'ombe, C Machethe - Agrekon, 2021 - journals.co.za
While contract farming and interlocked contractual arrangements (ICAs) are generally
perceived to resolve persistent market failures and improve smallholder farmers' welfare in …

Mitigating selection bias: a Bayesian approach to two-stage causal modeling with instrumental variables for nonnormal missing data

D Shi, X Tong - Sociological Methods & Research, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
This study proposes a two-stage causal modeling with instrumental variables to mitigate
selection bias, provide correct standard error estimates, and address nonnormal and …

A Bayesian approach to the analysis of local average treatment effect for missing and non-normal data in causal modeling: A tutorial with the ALMOND Package in R

D Shi, X Tong, MJ Meyer - Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
One practical challenge in observational studies and quasi-experimental designs is
selection bias. The issue of selection bias becomes more concerning when data are non …

Bayesian Two-Stage Robust Causal Modeling with Instrumental Variables using Student's t Distributions

D Shi, X Tong - Bayesian Inference, 2017 - books.google.com
In causal inference research, the issue of the treatment endogeneity is commonly addressed
using the two-stage least squares (2SLS) modeling with instrumental variables (IVs), where …