Richard A. Dunn
Spring 2009--Applied Microeconomics Reading Group
First Meeting: Friday, January 23 at 11am, Room TBA
Rich Woodward will be providing Pizza and a regular meeting time will be discussed.
Papers
January 23
Topic: Causality in economics
Heckman, J. J. (2005), The scientific model of causality, Sociological Methodology, 35, 1–97.
Notes: Focus on the first 3 sections (up to page 50). A recent NBER working paper by Heckman covers much of the same ground, perhaps more clearly.
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