Mostly Harmless Econometrics : : An Empiricist's Companion / / Joshua D. Angrist, Jörn-Steffen Pischke.

The core methods in today's econometric toolkit are linear regression for statistical control, instrumental variables methods for the analysis of natural experiments, and differences-in-differences methods that exploit policy changes. In the modern experimentalist paradigm, these techniques add...

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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2008]
©2009
Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 8 halftones. 17 line illus. 26 tables.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • FIGURES
  • TABLES
  • PREFACE
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • ORGANIZATION OF THIS BOOK
  • Part I. Preliminaries
  • Chapter 1. Questions about Questions
  • Chapter 2. The Experimental Ideal
  • Part II. The Core
  • Chapter 3. Making Regression Make Sense
  • Chapter 4. Instrumental Variables in Action: Sometimes You Get What You Need
  • Chapter 5. Parallel Worlds: Fixed Effects, Differences-in-Differences, and Panel Data
  • Part III. Extensions
  • Chapter 6. Getting a Little Jumpy: Regression Discontinuity Designs
  • Chapter 7. Quantile Regression
  • Chapter 8. Nonstandard Standard Error Issues
  • LAST WORDS
  • ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS
  • EMPIRICAL STUDIES INDEX
  • REFERENCES
  • INDEX