Joshua Angrist on Econometrics and Causation
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The Conviction of Regression Discontinuity
CNN's John Sutter talks with Ed Lemur about his 1983 paper, "Let's take the con out of econometrics" The article was worried that most of us don't get to go into the kitchen and see the enormous range of possible models an economist might try. In this world, you just hit return and you can just do lots and lots of data mining, he says. That's regression discontinuity.
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