Friday, March 09, 2007

Economic Instruments and their validity

The Wall Street Journal printed an article in the February 27th edition, which discussed Cornell University economist Michael Waldman and his paper which linked autism to the amount of television watched by young children. The article had less to do with his findings and more to do with whether or not economic instruments are appropriate tools to study these areas.

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1 comment:

Liam Delaney said...

The Economist ran a piece a couple of months back on the use of instruments to examine the effects of institutions on development