Econometric Sense

A while back I stumbled across a paper by Liu & Lynch:  Do Agricultural Land Preservation Programs Reduce Farmland Loss? Link: http://...

“Success is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration .” Thomas Alva Edison Last fall there was a really good article in the Ne...

There recently was a really interesting article at the Political Methodologist titled: A Decade of Replications: Lessons from the Quarterl...

What is the internet of things? It's essentially the proliferation of smart products with connectivity and data sharing capabilities th...

When I think of 'fat tails' or 'heavy tails' I typically think of situations that can be described by probability distributi...

Last november there was a post on the Health Affairs blog related to the evaluation of wellness programs. Here are some tidbits: "Th...

In an interesting post, "Playing Dumb on Statistical Significance" there is a discussion relating to Naomi Oreskes January 4 NYT ...