Abstract Since Edward Leamer's memorable 1983 paper,“Let's Take the Con out of
Econometrics,” empirical microeconomics has experienced a credibility revolution. While …

Three econometric methodologies, associated respectively with David Hendry, Christopher
Sims and Edward Leamer have been advocated and practiced by their adherents in recent …

There is growing interest in enhancing research transparency and reproducibility in
economics and other scientific fields. We survey existing work on these topics within …

A vast literature uses cross-country regressions to search for empirical linkages between
long-run growth rates and a variety of economic policy, political, and institutional indicators …

" Антихрупкость"—книга уникальная: она рассказывает о ключевом свойстве людей,
систем, о свойстве, у которого до сих пор не было названия. В мире, где царит …

This paper compares the effect on trainee earnings of an employment program that was run
as a field experiment where participants were randomly assigned to treatment and control …

Decentralized studies of fragility are common whenever an inference matters enough to
attract careful scrutiny. When Isaac Erlich (1975) claims to have demonstrated that capital …

Crime is a subject of intense emotions, conflicting ideologies. However, economists have
generally explained it as a reflection of individual choice and equilibrating market forces …

What is econometrics? A few definitions are given below: The method of econometric
research aims, essentially, at a conjunction of economic theory and actual measurements …

This paper presents what is to our knowledge the first empirical estimate of the effect of pay
in the civil service on corruption. First, we show that theory is ambiguous on the relationship …