We ’ re a team of epidemiologists from Columbia University ’ s Mailman School of Public Health , who published a recent study linking the wage gap to gender

There is a long and ongoing debate about the role of social selection versus social causation regarding social factors and physical and mental illnesses. We acknowledge that selection issues are certainly an issue (as they are in the design and conduct of all observational research). However, the debate between causation and selection mechanisms for mental illness is largely settled: both mechanisms REDDIT