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'Metrics: Illuminating the Path from Cause to Effect

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Thursday, March 05, 2015
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Josh Angrist

Applied econometrics, known to aficionados as 'metrics, is the original data science. 'Metrics encompasses the statistical methods economists use to untangle cause and effect in human affairs. Through accessible discussion and with a dose of kung fu-themed humor, Josh Angrist presents the essential tools of econometric research and demonstrates why econometrics is exciting and useful.The five most valuable econometric methods, or what the authors call the Furious Five¿random assignment, regression, instrumental variables, regression discontinuity designs, and differences in differences¿are illustrated through well-crafted real-world examples.Josh Angrist is the Ford Professor of Economics at MIT, a co-director of MIT¿s School Effectiveness and Inequality Initiative, and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Angrist received his B.A. from Oberlin College and completed his Ph.D. in economics at Princeton in 1989. He taught at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Harvard before coming to MIT in 1996. His research interests include the economics of education, the labor market, and econometric methods for program and policy evaluation. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and The Econometric Society.Please join us for a reception beginning at 5 p.m.

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