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

Oct 30, 2022

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Huito Inbens, Professor of Economics at Stanford University

02:34

The Problem With Causal Effects

04:16

Is There a Limit to the Nobel Prize?

02:43

Introduction

5min

Huito Inbens, Professor of Economics at Stanford University

3min

Huito, Is There a Correlation Between the Horace Man Medal and the Nobel Prize?

5min

What Is the Book For?

2min

How Many Revolutions Do We Need in a Field?

6min

The Reproducibility Crisis in the Biomedical Sciences?

4min

The Role of Education in the Job Market

2min

The Ethics of the PhD Program in Economics

5min

Hidou Yimens, What's Your Workflow?

4min

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How Do You Do What You Do?

2min

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The Imposter Syndrome

2min

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Does Imposter Syndrome Affect You?

5min

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Are We in the US at Least in the Last Maybe Headed for One?

2min

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Are There Applications for Blockchain?

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Is There a Strength in Your Character?

3min

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The Jordan Harbinger Show

5min

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The Problem With Causal Effects

4min

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How Many Planets Are There?

4min

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What's the Demand?

2min

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Tim Burgeon, a Radio Astronomer

1min

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The Economist's Model of Growth

5min

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How Can We Find Comparisons That Really Work?

3min

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How Do We Disentangle These Groups?

4min

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What Are the Effects of Not Serving in the Military?

5min

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What Do These Points Really Mean?

3min

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The Price Elasticity Is the Derivative of Quantity, Law, Quantity Versus Law, and So It Makes Sense

4min

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Is There a Limit to the Nobel Prize?

3min

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Is the Nobel Prize Really the Best Job in the World?

6min

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The Lottery

3min

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Is It Better to Take a Lump Sum and Avoid Inflationary Concerns?

2min

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The Last Book of the Bible - Deuteronomy

2min

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The Importance of Listening to Different Opinions

5min

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Is There Any Sufficient Technology Indistinguishable From Magic?

5min

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Are There Things That You've Changed Your Mind About?

3min

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The Impossible Advice to Your Former Self

4min

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Is That Cluff in the Molyne?

3min

Guido W. Imbens, along with David Card and Joshua Angrist, shared the 2021 Nobel Prize in Economics for “methodological contributions to the analysis of causal relationships”. In 2017 he received the Horace Mann medal at Brown University. An honor shared by your host Professor Brian Keating.

He is The Applied Econometrics Professor of Economics at the Stanford Graduate School of Business since 2012, and has also taught at Harvard University, UCLA, and UC Berkeley. He holds an honorary degree from the University of St Gallen. He is also the Amman Mineral Faculty Fellow at the Stanford GSB.

Imbens specializes in econometrics, and in particular methods for drawing causal inferences from experimental and observational data. He has published extensively in the leading economics and statistics journals. Together with Donald Rubin he has published a book, "Causal Inference in Statistics, Social and Biomedical Sciences”. He is a fellow of the Econometric Society, the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Statistical Association. He holds an honorary doctorate from the University of St. Gallen.

In this episode, Professor Imbens give his lecture on his Nobel Prize-winning thesis. See the video with the slides here: https://youtu.be/X632K3n8PPI