{"id":4732,"date":"2022-10-17T10:30:12","date_gmt":"2022-10-17T08:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/datascience.unifi.it\/?p=4732"},"modified":"2025-11-27T17:13:02","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T16:13:02","slug":"special-issue-of-observational-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/datascience.unifi.it\/index.php\/2022\/10\/17\/special-issue-of-observational-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Rebels with a Cause: Monologues from Heckman, Pearl, Robins, and Rubin&#8221; Special Issue of Observational Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A special issue of Observational Studies &#8220;Rebels with a Cause: Monologues from Heckman, Pearl, Robins, and Rubin\u201d has just has just come out with four interesting interviews to the most influential experts in the field of causality and causal inference: James Heckman, Judea Pearl, Jamie Robins and Don Rubin.<\/p>\n<p>These fascinating articles are followed by three insightful perspective pieces, including one from our Director of the Center, professor Fabrizia Mealli, who says &#8220;I found the interviews amusing, a piece of history of science, teaching how hard but rewarding research can be!&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>We highly recommend you this pleasant read, as the Editor suggests &#8220;be sure to set aside a few hours to enjoy this Special Issue because you won\u2019t want to put it down!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here you can find the special issue (open access): <a href=\"https:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/issue\/48885\">Observational Studies, Volume 8, Issue 2,\u00a0University of Pennsylvania Press<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/datascience.unifi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Observational-Studies-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"270\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A special issue of Observational Studies &#8220;Rebels with a Cause: Monologues from Heckman, Pearl, Robins, and Rubin\u201d has just has just come out with four interesting interviews to the most &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":4780,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,79,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-journals","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/datascience.unifi.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/datascience.unifi.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/datascience.unifi.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/datascience.unifi.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/datascience.unifi.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4732"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/datascience.unifi.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5000,"href":"https:\/\/datascience.unifi.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4732\/revisions\/5000"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/datascience.unifi.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/datascience.unifi.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/datascience.unifi.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/datascience.unifi.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}