Award year: 2025
Category: Other Award
Awarding organization: Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories
The LIfBi Research Award honors employees of the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi) who have made outstanding contributions in the areas of research or infrastructure. A publication by Marie-Ann Sengewald was selected by LIfBi’s Scientific Advisory Board for the award.
Sengewald, M.-A., & Mayer, A. (2024). Causal effect analysis in nonrandomized data with latent variables and categorical indicators: The implementation and benefits of EffectLiteR. Psychological Methods, 29(2), 287–307. https://doi.org/10.1037/met0000489
In this method-focused work, Marie-Ann Sengewald demonstrates an advanced statistical approach for estimating causal effects from non-experimental observational data and showcases the implementation with data from the National Educational Panel Study.