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13. When Bapu Met Levitt

Freakonomics, M.D.

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What Is a Natural Experiment?

A good natural experiment just tries to mimic those exact features of a real random ized trial. We try to find settings fore otherwise identical people, essentially, by chance, get treated very differently. So if we can do that, we've more or less mimicked arandomas trial without actually running a formal experiment,. You've had a lot more success convincing your colleagues that natural experiments have merit.

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