Credibility revolution
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In economics, the credibility revolution was the movement towards more rigorous empirical analysis.The movement sought to test economic theory and focused on causative econometric modeling and the use of experimental and quasi experimental methods.
The revolution began in the 1960s when governments began to ask economists to use their skills in economic modeling, econometrics and research design to collect and analyze government data to improve policy making and enforcement of laws. A good example is research on discrimination carried out by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). Grounded in legally required data from all US employers with 100 or more employees, economists, led by Phyllis Wallace, showed systematic discrimination in employment by race and sex. Their work led to successful discrimination cases in the utility, pharmaceutical and textile industries.
Francine Blau and others continued to use EEOC and other data to more rigorously test for wage differentials and occupational segregation by race and sex.
A number of economists began rigorously testing economic models using econometric techniques. For example, Ann Dryden Witte provided rigorous econometric testing of the hedonic model of housing prices[1] and the economic model of crime[2]. Dryden Witte also used both experimental[3] and quasi experimental[4] designs to evaluate criminal justice policies and programs.
The 2021 Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded to David Card, Joshua Angrist and Guido Imbens for their work in fostering the credibility revolution.[5][6] Alan Krueger is closely associated with the work of the three economists though died two years before the prize was awarded.[7]
The term "credibility revolution" was coined by Joshua Angrist in 2010, in his paper describing the changes in empirical economics that had occurred as a result of this revoltuion.[8]
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[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Dryden Witte, Ann; Sumka, Howard; Erikson, Homer (1979). "An Estimate of a Structural Hedonic Price Model of the Housing Market: An Application of Rosen's Theory of Implicit Markets". ECONOMETRICA. 47 (5): 1151–1173 – via JSTOR.
- ^ Witte, Ann Dryden (1980). "Estimating the Economic Model of Crime with Individual Data". The Quarterly Journal of Economics. 94 (1): 57–87. doi:10.2307/1884604 – via Oxford university Press.
- ^ Lattimore, Pamela K.; Witte, Ann Dryden; Baker, Joanna R. (1990). "Experimental Assessment of the Effect of Vocational Training On Youthful Property Offenders". Evaluation Review. 14 (2): 115–133. doi:10.1177/0193841X9001400201. ISSN 0193-841X.
- ^ Witte, Ann D. (1977). "Work Release in North Carolina. A Program That Works!". Law and Contemporary Problems. 41 (1): 230. doi:10.2307/1191236.
- ^ "The Nobel prize in economics celebrates an empirical revolution". The Economist. 12 October 2021. Retrieved 18 October 2021.
- ^ Pischke, Jörn-Steffen (16 October 2021). "Natural experiments in labour economics and beyond: The 2021 Nobel laureates David Card, Joshua Angrist, and Guido Imbens". VoxEU.org. Retrieved 18 October 2021.
- ^ "A Nobel prize for an economics revolution : The Indicator from Planet Money". NPR.org. Retrieved 2022-04-05.
- ^ Angrist, Joshua D.; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen (June 2010). "The Credibility Revolution in Empirical Economics: How Better Research Design Is Taking the Con out of Econometrics". Journal of Economic Perspectives. 24 (2): 3–30. doi:10.1257/jep.24.2.3. hdl:1721.1/54195. ISSN 0895-3309.
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