Wall Street Journal

Good Luck to Economists Finding Natural Experiments

Regarding David Henderson’s op-ed “ ‘Natural Experiments’ Lead to an Economics Nobel” (Oct. 12): Natural experiments require circumstances in which political events, geopolitical boundaries and so ...
Case Western Reserve University

The Wonderfully Messy Reality of Natural Experiments

Shift Happens is my favorite bumper sticker. I love the genuineness of natural experiments, when shifts in policy, practice or environment stimulate changes. As a scientist, I’m supposed to value the ...
Medical Xpress

A natural experiment provides evidence of link between air pollution and childhood obesity

A large natural experiment in Catalonia shows that moving to areas with higher levels of air pollution is associated with weight gain in young children. The study, led by the Barcelona Institute for ...
Wall Street Journal

‘Natural Experiments’ Lead to an Economics Nobel

The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded Monday to David Card of the University of California, Berkeley, Joshua Angrist of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Guido Imbens ...
Pensions&Investments

3 share Nobel economics prize for work using natural experiments

University of California, Berkeley, professor David Card was awarded one half of the 2021 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences "for his empirical contributions to labor economics," while ...
Barron's

Nobel Economics Prize: What Are 'Natural Experiments'?

The work of David Card, Joshua Angrist and Guido Imbens, who were awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics on Monday, is based on "natural experiments", an innovative method of empirical research ...