Return of the Phantom Menace

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Cross‐Country Determinants of Early‐Stage Necessity and Opportunity‐Motivated Entrepreneurship: Accounting for Model Uncertainty (2018, unknown): “The problem is that when the model is not correctly specified, controlling for some variables but not others is as likely to reduce bias as it is to increase it (Clarke 2005, 2009).”
Control variables and causal inference: a question of balance (2018, background): “The issues I explain here suggest that in addition to recognizing ‘omitted variable bias’ (Clarke, 2005, 2009; Wooldridge, 2003, p. 91), where omitting a necessary control variable can bias coefficient estimates, we also should recognize what I call ‘included variable bias’, where adding control…”