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Nobel-winning ‘natural experiments’ approach made economics more robust

Joshua Angrist, Guido Imbens and David Card share the prize for finding a way to identify cause and effect in social science.
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The ‘natural experiments’ approach to economics that won three researchers the 2021 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences has helped to make the field more robust, say economists.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02799-7

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