voprecotestВопросы экономикиVoprosy Ekonomiki0042-8736Voprosy Ekonomiki, NP10.32609/0042-8736-2022-1-5-22voprecotest-3810Research ArticleВОПРОСЫ ТЕОРИИISSUES OF THEORYВместо лаборатории: анализ данных естественных экспериментов (Нобелевская премия по экономике 2021 года)Instead of laboratory: Analyzing data from natural experiments (Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences 2021)https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1581-9951СонинК. И.SoninK. I.

Сонин Константин Исаакович, к.ф.-м.н., профессор Чикагского университета (Чикаго, США) и НИУ ВШЭ (Москва, Россия)

Konstantin I. Sonin

Chicago, IL, United States

Moscow, Russia

 

ksonin@gmail.comЧикагский университет; Национальный исследовательский университет «Высшая школа экономики»University of Chicago ; HSE University20221301202201522Copyright © Voprosy Ekonomiki, NP, 20222022Voprosy Ekonomiki, NPVoprosy Ekonomiki, NPhttps://www.vopreco.ru/jour/about/submissions#copyrightNoticehttps://www.vopreco.ru/jour/article/view/3810

Нобелевская премия 2021 г. присуждена Дэвиду Карду, Джошуа Ангристу и Гвидо Имбенсу за развитие методов статистического анализа данных «естественных экспериментов», ситуаций, в которых данные позволяют экономистам отвечать на важные вопросы, даже если нет возможности проводить полноценные лабораторные или полевые эксперименты. Подход, предложенный лауреатами, дал новые решения важных задач в экономике труда и образования и показал, как можно правильно поставить вопросы и устанавливать причинно-следственные связи во всех областях экономики, где используются реальные данные. Сейчас статистическая методология, развитая в работах Карда, Ангриста и Имбенса, а также их соавторов и последователей, стала стандартом работы с данными в экономической науке.

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