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A quirky and thought-provoking read for any budding econometrician. . . . Insightful and refreshing. -- James Davidson, Times Higher Education
I'd recommend it to the entire range of empirical economists, from those still in training to those who, like me, have only a hazy memory of statistical theory and stick to our tried and tested methods of estimation . . . an excellent guide to how to do basic regression/IV/panel data estimation really well. In particular, it demonstrates through many examples how to bring about a happy marriage between one's underlying model and the data which might or might not confirm the researcher's hypotheses. -- Diane Coyle, The Enlightened Economist Blog
The applied econometric methods emphasized in this book are easy to use and relevant for many areas of contemporary social sciences. -- Pavel Stoynov, Zentralblatt MATH
[T]he matter covered in the book is surely of interest to most agricultural economists. Even if it is not a complete overview of existing econometric research methods, it certainly contains a good deal of hands on advice driven by years of experience. -- "European Review of Agricultural Economics
This book is an extremely thought-provoking contribution to the literature. It champions a different paradigm to that characterising most econometrics texts and does so with considerable (idiosyncratic) style and grace. Highly recommended! -- David Harris and Christopher L. Skeels, Economic Record
I'd recommend it to the entire range of empirical economists, from those still in training to those who, like me, have only a hazy memory of statistical theory and stick to our tried and tested methods of estimation . . . an excellent guide to how to do basic regression/IV/panel data estimation really well. In particular, it demonstrates through many examples how to bring about a happy marriage between one's underlying model and the data which might or might not confirm the researcher's hypotheses. -- Diane Coyle, The Enlightened Economist Blog
The applied econometric methods emphasized in this book are easy to use and relevant for many areas of contemporary social sciences. -- Pavel Stoynov, Zentralblatt MATH
[T]he matter covered in the book is surely of interest to most agricultural economists. Even if it is not a complete overview of existing econometric research methods, it certainly contains a good deal of hands on advice driven by years of experience. -- "European Review of Agricultural Economics
This book is an extremely thought-provoking contribution to the literature. It champions a different paradigm to that characterising most econometrics texts and does so with considerable (idiosyncratic) style and grace. Highly recommended! -- David Harris and Christopher L. Skeels, Economic Record
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This pathbreaking book is a must-read for any scientist who is interested in formulating and testing hypotheses about the social world. This includes political scientists, sociologists, historians, geographers, and anthropologists. The book is clever and funny, and guides you through the tangle of problems that confront empirical research in social science. I wish I had had it years ago.
(James Robinson, Harvard University ) --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
(James Robinson, Harvard University ) --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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30 of 32 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
First, I should say I am a lecturer at the London School of Economics, so I am a colleague of one of the authors. But we work on different things, I am a macroeconomist, most of my work is theoretical, so I have little interaction with Steve Pischke. I've bought the book, was very well impressed, and decided to post my honest assessment of it here.
Although this book is not written as a 1st-year PhD econometrics book, I think it covers exactly what I wish my first graduate course in econometrics would have covered, I wish I had learned econometrics from a book like this. Unfortunatelly I didn't. While I find the topics covered here intelectually estimulating and very useful, much of what was taught to me in econometrics was boring and ended up being quite useless. Worse, many things that are very important (namely the conceptual discussion behind what we are doing when we do econometrics) are never really covered in most econometric courses, and while I like to think I ended up learning some of it going to seminars, thinking about it, talking to people, I am sure there is much I should know but I don't. This book has been filling those gaps.
I highly recommend this book for all economists interested in understanding and critically evaluating work on applied econometrics and any social scientists interested in quantitative work.
Although this book is not written as a 1st-year PhD econometrics book, I think it covers exactly what I wish my first graduate course in econometrics would have covered, I wish I had learned econometrics from a book like this. Unfortunatelly I didn't. While I find the topics covered here intelectually estimulating and very useful, much of what was taught to me in econometrics was boring and ended up being quite useless. Worse, many things that are very important (namely the conceptual discussion behind what we are doing when we do econometrics) are never really covered in most econometric courses, and while I like to think I ended up learning some of it going to seminars, thinking about it, talking to people, I am sure there is much I should know but I don't. This book has been filling those gaps.
I highly recommend this book for all economists interested in understanding and critically evaluating work on applied econometrics and any social scientists interested in quantitative work.
Format:Paperback
A very useful book for professional and non-professional economists. I found it's use of examples to guide the reader through most of the concepts extremely useful. Indeed, I would recommend this book to everyone interested in engaging fruitfully with economic research.
4 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Covers all the main points of a postgrad econometrics course. Succint and plain talking. Recommended!
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