Emily Oster on Pregnancy, Causation, and Expecting Better
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The Future of Economics and Conometrics
Emily Oster: I'm a skeptic about our ability to tease out causation in many of these cases that we care about. The question is how much and in public policy where the causal mechanisms are often much more complex. Rich Koyette: Emily, do you think we're making progress? She says she thinks there's going to be just continual advances in methodology which lead us to different conclusions.
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