Xiaojing Du

Peer Effect Estimation in the Presence of Simultaneous Feedback and Unobserved Confounders

2025 · arXiv (Cornell University)

Estimating peer causal effects within complex real-world networks such as social networks is challenging, primarily due to simultaneous feedback between peers and unobserved confounders. Existing methods either address unobserved confounders while ignoring the simultaneous feedback, …