Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Spanish term or phrase:
contrafactual
English translation:
counterfactual
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pistacho
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Spanish term
contrafactual
Spanish to English
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Finance (general)
conditional cash transfer and rural development programmes
Este diseño muestral permite identificar el impacto de OR a partir de la variación en el momento de entrada de las organizaciones al programa. En otras palabras, la evaluación de OR consiste en comparar a los hogares que ingresaron a OR en una etapa temprana (2008 y 2009) y en una etapa intermedia (2012) aquellos que entraron en una etapa tardía (2013). Este último grupo de hogares sirve como contrafactual en la medida en que estaba empezando el programa en el momento en el que se recogió la información para la evaluación. Esto equivale a estimar la siguiente ecuación
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| 4 +2 | counterfactual |
DLyons
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| 5 -1 | counterfactual conditional |
Francois Boye
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counterfactual
This is a standard term in impact evaluation - "a comparison between what actually happened and what would have happened in the absence of the intervention."
See e.g. "we are interested in comparing an ex post realized outcome with a counterfactual outcome that could have obtained under certain assumptions regarding the policy variable."
See e.g. "we are interested in comparing an ex post realized outcome with a counterfactual outcome that could have obtained under certain assumptions regarding the policy variable."
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Francois Boye
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counterfactual conditional
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterfactual_conditional
Please click on the Spanish version of the wikipedia text in the attachment above: you will see that my translation is the English for 'contrafactual'.
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Note added at 1 hr (2015-11-25 03:37:59 GMT)
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I agree that most researchers just say counterfactual. But I remind my critics below that any counterfactual assumes an what if hypothesis' i.e., a conditional. The equation at the end of the text would have settled this dispute if it had been revealed.
Please click on the Spanish version of the wikipedia text in the attachment above: you will see that my translation is the English for 'contrafactual'.
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Note added at 1 hr (2015-11-25 03:37:59 GMT)
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I agree that most researchers just say counterfactual. But I remind my critics below that any counterfactual assumes an what if hypothesis' i.e., a conditional. The equation at the end of the text would have settled this dispute if it had been revealed.
Peer comment(s):
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bigedsenior
: to be contrafactual, there has to be an "if" clause, which text does not have.
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DLyons
: Makes no sense. As bigedsenior says.
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Discussion
Me haría un favor si usted revelase la ecuación a fines del párrafo del texto adjuntado!
Gracias!
A "counterfactual conditional" is a concept in the fields of Philosophy and Linguistics.
It happens to share the word "counterfactual" with a term that any specialist in Economics will be familiar with.