Reading

I list here several readings that motivate my research interests.

• Trygve Haavelmo (1944). “The Probability Approach in Econometrics”. Econometrica, 12(0), pp. 1–115.
• Jacob Marschak (1953). “Economic Measurements for Policy and Prediction”. Economic Information, Decision, and Prediction, pp. 293–322.
• Edward E. Leamer (1978). “Specification Searches: Ad-hoc Inference with Nonexperimental Data”. Wiley.
• Christopher A. Sims (1980). “Macroeconomics and Reality”. Econometrica, 48(1), pp. 1-48.
• Edward E. Leamer (1983). “Let’s Take the Con Out of Econometrics”. The American Economic Review, 73(1), pp. 31–43.
• Nancy Cartwright (1989). “Nature’s Capacities and Their Measurement”. Clarendon Press.
• Charles F. Manski (1993). “Identification of Endogenous Social Effects: The Reflection Problem”. Review of Economic Studies, 60, pp. 531-542.
• Lars Peter Hansen and James J. Heckman (1996). “The Empirical Foundations of Calibration”. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 10(1), pp. 87-104.
• Charles F. Manski (2004). “Statistical Treatment Rules for Heterogeneous Populations”. Econometrica, 72(4), pp. 1221–1246.
• Raj Chetty (2009). “Sufficient Statistics for Welfare Analysis: A Bridge Between Structural and Reduced-Form Methods”. Annual Review of Economics, 1, pp. 451-488.
• Edward E. Leamer (2010). “Tantalus on the Road to Asymptopia”. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 24(2), pp. 31–46.
• James J. Heckman (2010). “Building Bridges Between Structural and Program Evaluation Approaches to Evaluating Policy”. Journal of Economic Literature, 48(2), pp. 356–398.
• Blakeley B. McShane, David Gal, Andrew Gelman, Christian Robert & Jennifer L. Tackett (2019). “Abandon Statistical Significance”. The American Statistician, 73(1), pp. 235-245.
• Richard S. Sutton (2019). “The Bitter Lesson”.
• Charles F. Manski (2021). “Econometrics For Decision Making: Building Foundations Sketched By Haavelmo And Wald”. Econometrica, 89(6), pp. 2827-2853.