Mhe presents an example where controlling for occupation type while estimating causal effect of college on earnings is a wrong thing to do. Ive had angristpischkes mostly harmless econometrics. Angrist massachusetts institute of technology jornste. I assign angrist and pischkes mostly harmless econometrics in virtually all of my graduate courses but its still a very hard book whats been needed for some time is a more casual introduction. How better research design is taking the con out of econometrics. Download mostly harmless econometrics direct download link copy and paste. Mostly harmless econometrics princeton university press. Basically ap want all econometrics texts to look a lot more like theirs.
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