Mostly Harmless Econometrics
An Empiricist's Companion
by Joshua D. Angrist
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appears in Econometrics, Statistics, and Finance.
The core methods in today's econometric toolkit are linear regression for statistical control, instrumental variables methods for the analysis of natural experiments, and differencesindifferences methods that exploit policy changes. In the modern experimentalist paradigm, these techniques address clear causal questions such as: Do smaller classes...
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