TY - BOOK AU - Angrist, Joshua David AU - Pischke, Jorn Steffen. TI - Mostly harmless econometrics: an empiricist's companion SN - 9780691120355 U1 - 330.015195 PY - 2009/// CY - New Jersey PB - Princeton University Press KW - Econometrics, Regression analysis N1 - https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691120355/mostly-harmless-econometrics N2 - The core methods in today’s econometric toolkit are linear regression for statistical control, instrumental variables methods for the analysis of natural experiments, and differences-in-differences methods that exploit policy changes. In the modern experimentalist paradigm, these techniques address clear causal questions such as: Do smaller classes increase learning? Should wife batterers be arrested? How much does education raise wages? Mostly Harmless Econometrics shows how the basic tools of applied econometrics allow the data to speak ER -