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Instead of laboratory: Analyzing data from natural experiments (Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences 2021)
https://doi.org/10.32609/0042-8736-2022-1-5-22
Abstract
The 2021 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded to David Card, Joshua Angrist, and Guido Imbens for advancing methodology to establish casual relationships in economics. Their approach brought the notion of the natural experiment, situations in which heterogeneous reactions of different groups of people to chance shocks or policy changes allows to elicit causal effects, to the forefront of empirical analysis, and spearheaded a revolution in development of statistical methods needed to analyze the data. After the initial contributions in labor economics and economics of education, the new approach has become a new standard in economic sciences.
Keywords
casual effects,
natural experiments,
labor economics,
economics of education,
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
JEL: C36, C90, J24, J61
About the Author
K. I. Sonin
University of Chicago ; HSE University
Konstantin I. Sonin
Chicago, IL, United States
Moscow, Russia
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Sonin K.I. Instead of laboratory: Analyzing data from natural experiments (Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences 2021). Voprosy Ekonomiki. 2022;(1):5-22. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.32609/0042-8736-2022-1-5-22
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