Reiss, Julian (2003) Practice ahead of theory: instrumental variables, natural experiments and inductivism in econometrics. Technical report (CPNSS Research Project) (CTR 12/03). Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Sciences, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.
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This paper argues that the field of econometrics divides into camps of sinners and preachers. Specifically, I look at two sins condemned by the preachers: the making of causal background assumptions when identifying parameters for estimation and the estimation of parameters that have no or little theoretical significance. I argue that practitioners in the natural experiments literature happily commit these sins and that this is for the good of the discipline.
| Item Type: | Monograph (Report) |
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| Official URL: | http://www2.lse.ac.uk/CPNSS/projects/CoreResearchP... |
| Additional Information: | © 2003 The Author |
| Divisions: | CPNSS |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory |
| Date Deposited: | 09 Jun 2011 15:12 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Dec 2024 05:40 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/36602 |
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