Let's Take the Con Out of Econometrics

By Edward E. Leamer. 1983

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Audit Quality, Management Ownership, and the Informativeness of Accounting Earnings (2002, background): “This estimation seeks to address concerns such as those raised by Leamer (1983) regarding the use of control variables.”
Qualitative comparative analysis vis-à-vis regression (2005, background): “Furthermore, the fact that these assumptions are routinely made with no supporting evidence makes them perhaps the major obstacle to credible causal inference in the social sciences (Leamer, 1983).”
Economic Growth and Social Capital (2000, methodology): “They subjected the empirical work in this field to a variant of Leamer’s Extreme Bounds Analysis (Leamer, 1983), a technique designed to elicit the robustness of predictor variables in a regression model subject to changes in the specification.”
INSTITUTIONAL DISTORTIONS ,E CONOMIC FREEDOM, AND GROWTH (2002, unknown): “Renelt (1992), who rely on the extreme bounds analysis (EBA) suggested by Leamer (1983 and 1985) .”
Economic Principles, Issues, and Research Priorities in Hazard Loss Estimation (2004, background): “Econometric models have no major biases, as do I-O and to a lesser extent CGE models, but do contain a number of more subtle biases (see, e.g., Leamer, 1983).”
We Ran One Regression (2004, unknown): “The theory behind additional approaches such as extreme bounds (see Leamer, 1983, and Leamer and Leonard, 1983), and model averaging as advocated by Fernández et al. (2001), are not considered here.”