economics, psychology, policy

The death penalty is an emotive and complex subject. The degree to which it is accepted in some countries, especially in the USA, seems biz...

This article discusses a recent paper which summarizes a ton of papers that find a positive correlation between happiness and longevity. It...

Those interested in the JEP symposium linked below but would like something a bit more technical should look at Heckman's recent NBER pa...

Omitted variables are terrible. If you are beset by them then (& unless you are lucky that they are orthogonal to whats included) you ar...

Evidence based on the Vietnam Era Draft Lottery A thought provoking paper that I overlooked last year but which has recently come to my atte...

Basketball is very important here in Kentucky. While at the mall today, on the back of a guy's hoodie today I saw the slogan "Bas...

DON'T PANIC! The core methods in today's econometric toolkit are linear regression for statistical control, instrumental variables m...

There have been various lectures and discussions on causality here over the last while, the culmination being Professor Heckman's sessio...

The statement that "Correlation does not imply causation" is hardly uncontroversial or, indeed, particularly deep. Nonetheless it ...

We have discussed the possibility of evaluating adevertising campaigns on this blog before ( here and here ). So it is interesting to read ...

This cartoon is too good not to put up here aswell. Thanks to Aleks Jakulin from the Columbia Statistics Blog for sharing it. For a discussi...

For policymakers and executives interested in understanding the causal effect of the programmes they are running or financing, the following...

A working paper (2008) by Jasjeet S. Sekhon from the Department of Political Science at UC Berkeley: " Opiates for the Matches - Matchi...

DON'T PANIC! The core methods in today's econometric toolkit are linear regression for statistical control, instrumental variables m...