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Biology — Healthy Worker Effect

Selection into the workforce is a collider.

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Healthy worker effectEOccupational exposureDDiseaseHUnderlying healthSIn the workforceExposureOutcomeConfounderMediatorUnobservedThe exposure is unconfounded: every backdoor path is already blocked, so the crude association estimates the total effect. 4 variables, 4 edge…No adjustment is needed: the exposure is unconfounded in this diagram, so the crude association between `Occupational exposure` and `Disease` already estimates th…

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title "Healthy worker effect"
exposure E "Occupational exposure"
outcome D "Disease"
unobserved H "Underlying health"
node S "In the workforce"
E -> S
H -> S
H -> D
E -> D