Some ideas are so good that they keep re-appearing again and again. In other words, they stand the test of time, and prove to be useful in lots of different contexts – sometimes in situations that we couldn’t have imagined when the idea first came ...
This brief post is a "shout out" for Irene Botusaru (Economics, Simon Fraser University) who gave a great seminar in our department yesterday.The paper that she presented (co-authored with Federico Guitierrez), is titled "Diff...
A hat-tip to Judea Pearl, whose e-newsletter alerted me to this interesting post on the EvaluationHelp blog. It shows the original sixteen diagrams in Sewall Wright's classic 1921 paper on correlation and causality.Philip and Sewall Wright were re...
Empirical demand analysis played a central role in the early history of econometrics. For instance, studies relating to this topic laid the groundwork for our understanding of simultaneous equations systems, identification, and instrumental variables e...
