Matthew J. Holian, "Data and the American Dream: Contemporary Social Controversies and the American Community Survey" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
New Books in Economics
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The American Community Survey and Data and the American Dream
The author of a new book about making causal inferences from observational data. Matthew Schulder: "I tried to write it at a level that would be accessible for students of all levels, including even high school students" He says he hopes the book will help dispel a common misconception that economics is only about finance or macro economic forecasting. The co-authors were awarded the nobell prize in economics last month.
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