Rena Zito, assistant professor of sociology, provides a guide to propensity score analysis in teenage childbearing research for a methods-focused publication.
Assistant Professor of Sociology Rena Zito’s article, “,” was recently published in SAGE Research Methods Cases, a methods-focused publication.
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Zito’s research methods case builds on her publication “,” published in the journal Youth & Society. Her research employed propensity score analysis using nearest-neighbor matching to assess the causal effect of teenage motherhood on personal transformation (i.e., self-worth, life satisfaction, and orientation towards risk, the future, and relationships) using first- and third-wave National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health data from more than 7,500 female respondents.
Her SAGE Research Methods Cases publication provides readers with a how-to guide to counterfactual analysis, with a particular focus on teenage childbearing research.