Emily Oster on Pregnancy, Causation, and Expecting Better
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The Hardness of Conceding That You Were Wrong
I think it was a some relative to some of these other like very longstanding, like back and forth in economics about this stuff. This puts you in a very small class of academics who have the privilege of conceding that you were wrong. And even better publishing a paper showing it. That's really, it stuns me. I'm not being facetious at all. How rare it is in our profession that someone when when a paper comes out that counters with the original paper found, someone then concedes that they were actually wrong.
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