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Overturning 'conventional wisdom' with 'natural experiments'

Via Reuters ... "Economists David Card, Joshua Angrist and Guido Imbens won the 2021 Nobel economics prize on Monday for pioneering "natural experiments" to show real-world economic impacts in areas from minimum wage increases in the U.S. fast-food sector to migration from Castro-era Cuba." "One experiment...
Source: reuters.com

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Source: 80000hours.org

This study is forcing economists to rethink high-deductible health insurance: Perhaps higher deductibles don't lead to smarter

This study is forcing economists to rethink high-deductible health insurance: Perhaps higher deductibles don't lead to smarter shoppers but rather, in the long run, sicker patients.
Source: vox.com

Machine Learning Could Solve Economists' Math Problem - Slashdot

Machine Learning Could Solve Economists' Math Problem - Slashdot
Source: slashdot.org