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P-hacking, Reproducibility & the Nobel Prize: Guido Imbens (#269)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

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How Many Revolutions Do We Need in a Field?

In the 80s, economics has a couple of different components. There's kind of theoretical work where people do sort of apply mathematical modeling of economic behavior. And then there's empirical work where people actually take models to the data and try to use them for giving policy advice or helping in decision making. The famous paper that sort of caught the anglers and I all cite as a source of inspiration by a guy at UCLA at Leamer was Let's Take the Con out of Econometrics.

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