Mastering ' Metrics The Path from Cause to Effect
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Textbook:Mastering ' Metrics The Path from Cause to Effect
Joshua D. Angrist and Jörn-Steffen Pischke

CONTENTS
Randomized Trials 1
1.1 In Sickness and in Health (Insurance) 1
1.2 The Oregon Trail 24
Masters of ' Metrics: From Daniel to R. A. Fisher 30
Appendix: Mastering Inference 33
2 Regression 47
2.1 A Tale of Two Colleges 47
2.2 Make Me a Match, Run Me a Regression 55
2.3 Ceteris Paribus? 68
Masters of ' Metrics: Galton and Yule 79
Appendix: Regression Theory 82
3 Instrumental Variables_98
3.1 The Charter Conundrum 99
3.2 Abuse Busters 115
3.3 The Population Bomb 123
Masters of ' Metrics: The Remarkable Wrights 139
Appendix: IV Theory_142
4 Regression Discontinuity Designs 147
4.1 Birthdays and Funerals 148
4.2 The Elite Illusion 164
Masters of ' Metrics: Donald Campbell_175
5 Differences-in-Differences 178
5.1 A Mississippi Experiment 178
5.2 Drink, Drank, 191
Masters of ' Metrics: John Snow 204
Appendix: Standard Errors for Regression DD 205
6 The Wages of Schooling 209
6.1 Schooling, Experience, and Earnings 209
6.2 Twins Double the Fun 217
6.3 Econometricians Are Known by Their ... Instruments 223
6.4 Rustling Sheepskin in the Lone Star State 235
Appendix: Bias from Measurement Error_240
Abbreviations and Acronyms 245
Empirical Notes 249