How to Deal With Reverse Causality Using Panel Data?  Recommendations for Researchers Based on a Simulation Study

Leszczensky, Lars; Wolbring, Tobias

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“…In order to estimate whether a causal relation exists between two variables, a study design is needed that is able to prevent bias in the estimates due to reverse causation, incorrect specification of the lag of the effect, and confounding. Methods that can take all these issues into account require at least three measurements of both dependent and independent variables (Allison et al 2017;Hamaker et al 2015;Leszczensky and Wolbring 2019), which were not available in TRAILS. Future research that has at least three measures of all variables at study would be able to overcome these issues with estimating how characteristics induce change in one another.…”

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Explaining Health Disparities between Heterosexual and LGB Adolescents by Integrating the Minority Stress and Psychological Mediation Frameworks: Findings from the TRAILS Study

Kiekens

Roi

Bos

et al. 2020

J Youth Adolescence

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Lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) adolescents experience elevated levels of internalizing problems and use more substances than heterosexual adolescents. The minority stress and psychological mediation framework are complementary theoretical frameworks that were developed to explain these disparities. However, limited empirical research has integrated both frameworks to study health disparities between heterosexual and LGB adolescents. This study attempts such an integration, using data from the first five waves (participant age 11-22) of the TRacking Adolescents' Individual Lives Survey (TRAILS), a cohort study of Dutch adolescents (N = 1738; 151 LGB; 54.8% girls). It was tested whether an LGB identity was linked to internalizing problems and substance use through a serial mediation process, in which sexual identity would be associated with peer victimization and negative relationships with parents (first set of mediators, in keeping with the minority stress framework), which in turn would be associated with fear of negative social evaluation and a lack of social support (second set of mediators, in keeping with the psychological mediation framework), and eventually increasing the risk for internalizing problems and elevated levels of substance use. Moreover, it was tested whether the link between minority stress and substance use was mediated by peers' substance use levels, as hypothesized by the psychological mediation framework. Compared to heterosexual participants, LGB participants reported more internalizing problems, smoked more cigarettes, and used more marijuana, but did not consume more alcohol. The relation between sexual identity and internalizing problems was mediated by peer victimization and parental rejection, which is in line with the minority stress framework. No statistically significant support was found for the psychological mediation framework. These findings provide a better understanding of the pathways through which sexual identity disparities in mental wellbeing and substance use come about.

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Explaining Health Disparities between Heterosexual and LGB Adolescents by Integrating the Minority Stress and Psychological Mediation Frameworks: Findings from the TRAILS Study

Kiekens

Roi

Bos

et al. 2020

J Youth Adolescence

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“…However, we must acknowledge that these alternative explanations cannot be entirely dismissed given that there seems to be no bulletproof solution, especially regarding reverse causality, which is particularly true for cross-sectional data but in many regards also extends to longitudinal data (see e.g., Vaisey and Miles 2017). With longitudinal data, more sophisticated methods are available (cf., Leszczensky and Wolbring 2018), but these methods are also not without their own problems. Therefore, further research is needed to corroborate our results.…”

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The social stigma of unemployment: consequences of stigma consciousness on job search attitudes, behaviour and success

Krug

Drasch

Jungbauer-Gans

2019

J Labour Market Res

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Studies show that the unemployed face serious disadvantages in the labour market and that the social stigma of unemployment is one explanation. In this paper, we focus on the unemployed's expectations of being stigmatized (stigma consciousness) and the consequences of such negative expectations on job search attitudes and behaviour. Using data from the panel study "Labour Market and Social Security" (PASS), we find that the unemployed with high stigma consciousness suffer from reduced well-being and health. Regarding job search, the stigmatized unemployed are more likely to expect that their chances of re-employment are low, but in contrast, they are more likely to place a high value on becoming re-employed. Instead of becoming discouraged and passive, we find that stigmatized unemployed individuals increase their job search effort compared to other unemployed individuals. However, despite their higher job search effort, the stigma-conscious unemployed do not have better re-employment chances.

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“…Each structural equation contains an autoregressive term, a cross‐lagged term, a time trend, nine lagged covariates, and the idiosyncratic error. The cross‐lagged models address endoegenity due to reverse‐causality through the cross‐lagged terms, endogeneity due to omiited variables by imposing cross‐equation error covariance, compensation persistence through the autoregressive term, acquisition rate persistence through the autoregressive term (Leszczensky & Wolbring, ). We used the lagged covariates that we have used in the previous models.…”

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Frequent acquirers and management compensation

Mishra

2020

Manage Decis Econ

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We find positive contemporaneous, short-, and long-run effects of an increase in the acquisition rate on management compensation. A positive bidirectional causality exists between acquisition frequency and management compensation. A higher firm value is likely to associate with higher acquisition frequency. Acquisition rate has a positive impact on the market share. Acquirers with lower market share are more likely to become frequent acquirers. A causal order follows from lower market share to higher acquisition frequency to higher firm value to higher management compensation. The impact of acquisition frequency on management compensation is higher for value-enhancing acquirers relative to value-destroying acquirers.for good (value-enhancing) acquirers but does not change for bad (value-destroying) acquirers. However, Harford and Li (2007) show CEO compensation is insensitive to acquirer performance. Avery, Chevalier, and Schaefer (1998) show no significant difference in CEO's equity compensation between acquirers and nonacquirers. Avery et al. find no difference in the relation between CEO compensation and acquisition decisions for both good and bad acquirers. Moreover, Guest (2009) find a transitory positive effect of an

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How to Deal With Reverse Causality Using Panel Data? Recommendations for Researchers Based on a Simulation Study

Cited by 54 publications

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Explaining Health Disparities between Heterosexual and LGB Adolescents by Integrating the Minority Stress and Psychological Mediation Frameworks: Findings from the TRAILS Study

Explaining Health Disparities between Heterosexual and LGB Adolescents by Integrating the Minority Stress and Psychological Mediation Frameworks: Findings from the TRAILS Study

The social stigma of unemployment: consequences of stigma consciousness on job search attitudes, behaviour and success

Frequent acquirers and management compensation

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