Tantalus on the Road to Asymptopia

By Edward E. Leamer. 2010

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Finance, General Decision Sciences

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Why so many published sensitivity analyses are false: A systematic review of sensitivity analysis practices (2017, background): “426 • Finally, as noted in (Leamer, 2010), the reluctance to take up these methods may be due to their 427 candour.”
Resurrecting weighted least squares (2017, background): “In contrast, we side with Leamer (2010) who views conditional heteroskedasticity as an opportunity, namely an opportunity to construct more efficient estimators and to obtain shorter confidence intervals by sensibly weighting the data.”
What You Can and Can’t Properly Do with Regression (2010, background): “9; Leamer 2010).”
TRYGVE HAAVELMO AND THE EMERGENCE OF CAUSAL CALCULUS (2014, unknown): “A more reasonable alternative, one that I have advocated in (Pearl, 2000) and that is gaining support among economists (e.g., Heckman, 2000, 2003, 2008; Keane, 2010; Leamer, 2010) is to treat an economic model as an oracle for all causally related queries, including questions of prospective and intr”
Quantiles via moments (2019, background): “…viewed as a nuisance, or interesting only inasmuch as knowledge of it can be used to improve the estimation of the conditional mean (see, e.g., Leamer, 2010, and Romano andWolf, 2017).20 However, the specification and estimation of the scale function is a simple and convenient way of gaining…”
The Superiority of Economists (2015, background): “Although this move has not escaped criticism (for example, see Leamer 2010 and Sims 2010 in this journal), it represents a significant departure from the now disparaged over-theoretical orientations of the 1970s and 1980s.”
The Power and Pitfalls of Experiments in Development Economics: Some Non‐random Reflections (2010, background): “Heckman (1992; 2010), Deaton and Leamer (1983; 2010) discuss a variety of statistical limitations to the internal validity of RCT estimates that merit brief mention.”