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Researcher Incentives and Empirical Methods
Glaeser, Edward L. - 2007
Economists are quick to assume opportunistic behavior in almost every walk of life other than our own. Our empirical methods are based on assumptions of human behavior that would not pass muster in any of our models. The solution to this problem is not to expect a mass renunciation of data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012778257
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Causal Inference in Urban and Regional Economics
Baum-Snow, Nathaniel - 2014
Recovery of causal relationships in data is an essential part of scholarly inquiry in the social sciences. This chapter discusses strategies that have been successfully used in urban and regional economics for recovering such causal relationships. Essential to any successful empirical inquiry is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013046178
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Economic Analysis of Social Interactions
Manski, Charles F. - 2021
rigor of modern economic analysis. Major theoretical developments in game theory, the economics of the family, and … endogenous growth theory have taken place. Economists have also performed new empirical research on social interactions, but the … empirical literature does not show progress comparable to that achieved in economic theory. This paper examines why and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013239146
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The Social Multiplier
Glaeser, Edward L.; Sacerdote, Bruce; Scheinkman, José - 2021
In many cases, aggregate data is used to make inferences about individual level behavior. If there are social interactions in which one person's actions influence his neighbor's incentives or information, then these inferences are inappropriate. The presence of positive social interactions, or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013252296
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Econometrics and the Design of Economic Reform
Bruno, Michael - 2010
The concept of Economic Reform is described as a planned shift from one, Pareto inefficient, but quasi-stable, equilibrium (or 'trap') to a new Pareto superior equilibrium which is, or is designed to become, stable too. The concept is applied to recent 'shock' stabilization programs, with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135342
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Solving Large Scale Rational Expectations Models
Gaspar, Jess - 2010
We explore alternative approaches to numerical solutions of large rational expectations models. We discuss and compare several current alternatives, focussing on the tradeoffs in accuracy, space, and speed. The models range from representative agent models with many goods and capital stocks, to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012763554
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Econometrics for Decision Making : Building Foundations Sketched by Haavelmo and Wald
Manski, Charles F. - 2019
initiated his own seminal development of statistical decision theory. Haavelmo favorably cited Wald, but econometrics …In the early 1940s, Haavelmo proposed a probabilistic structure for econometric modeling, aiming to make econometrics … subsequently did not embrace statistical decision theory. Instead, it focused on study of identification, estimation, and …
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Instrumental Variables : An Econometrician's Perspective
Imbens, Guido W. - 2014
I review recent work in the statistics literature on instrumental variables methods from an econometrics perspective. I …
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Quantifier Elimination for Deduction in Econometrics
Mulligan, Casey B. - 2018
When combined with the logical notion of partially interpreted functions, many nonparametric results in econometrics …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012919312
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Data Problems in Econometrics
Griliches, Zvi - 2021
This review of data problems in econometrics has been prepared for the Handbook of Econometrics (Vol. 3, Chap. 25 … VII) with some final remarks on the existential problem of econometrics: life with imperfect data and inadequate theories …
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