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Author Angrist, Joshua David.

Title Mostly harmless econometrics : an empiricist's companion / Joshua D. Angrist and Jörn-Steffen Pischke
Published Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2009]
©2009

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Description xiii, 373 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Contents I. Preliminaries -- 1. Questions about Questions -- 2. The Experimental Ideal -- II. The Core -- 3. Making Regression Make Sense -- 4. Instrumental Variables in Action: Sometimes You Get What You Need -- 5. Parallel Worlds: Fixed Effects, Differences-in-Differences, and Panel Data -- III. Extensions -- 6. Getting a Little Jumpy: Regression Discontinuity Designs -- 7. Quantile Regression -- 8. Nonstandard Standard Error Issues -- Empirical Studies Index
Summary In addition to econometric essentials, this book covers important new extensions as well as how to get standard errors right. The authors explain why fancier econometric techniques are typically unnecessary and even dangerous
Notes Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [339]-359) and indexes
Subject Econometrics.
Regression analysis.
Author Pischke, Jörn-Steffen.
LC no. 2008027917
ISBN 069112034X (hardcover : alk. paper)
0691120358 (paperback: alk. paper)
9780691120348 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780691120355 (paperback: alk. paper)