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Random Acts of Data with Dr. Anupam Jena

ParentData with Emily Oster

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The Effects of Exercise on Health

Exercise is an interesting one where we do have some randomized trials. But then when you get into these more nuanced things, like is it better to play soccer or run? It's harder to imagine the experiment that could tell us what type of exercise is optimal. And if you see that sort of phenomenon happening even after randomization, you don't actually know what the causal effect of the exercise is.

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