[The Springer Series on Demographic Meth
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Engelhardt, Henriette; Kohler, Hans-Peter; Fürnkranz-Prskawetz, Alexia
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Article
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2009
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Springer Netherlands
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English
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The central aim of many studies in population research and demography is to explain cause-effect relationships among variables or events. For decades, population scientists have concentrated their efforts on estimating the ‘causes of effects’ by applying standard cross-sectional and dynamic regressi