Regression‐based negative control of homophily in dyadic peer effect analysis

DOI10.1111/BIOM.13483MaRDI QIDQ6079488zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Lan Liu, Eric J. Tchetgen Tchetgen

Publication date 30 October 2023

Published in Biometrics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.06521

zbMATH Keywords

causal inferencecolliderexogeneityhomophilynegative control exposure

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10)

Abstract: A prominent threat to causal inference about peer effects over social networks is the presence of homophily bias, that is, social influence between friends and families is entangled with common characteristics or underlying similarities that form close connections. Analysis of social network data has suggested that certain health conditions such as obesity and psychological states including happiness and loneliness can spread over a network. However, such analyses of peer effects or contagion effects have come under criticism because homophily bias may compromise the causal statement. We develop a regression-based approach which leverages a negative control exposure for identification and estimation of contagion effects on additive or multiplicative scales, in the presence of homophily bias. We apply our methods to evaluate the peer effect of obesity in Framingham Offspring Study.

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