...Matthew T. Panhans; John D. Singleton While historians of economics have noted the transition toward empirical work in economics since the 1970s, less understood is the shift toward “quasi-experimental” methods in applied microeconomics. Joshua D. Angrist and Jörn-Steffen Pischke trumpet the wide...

... of quasi-experimental micro- econometric methods in his inquiry, and the repercussions of his work among sociologists. Part three delves speci cally into the use of counter- factuals by welfare economists, exploring them as mediating instru- ments in processes of trial and error. Part four documents Neri...

... the concurrent rise of experimen- tal economics, game theory, and quasi-experimental methods (Svorenčík, this volume; Panhans and Singleton, this volume) and the decline of “pure” theory (Biddle and Hamermesh, this volume; see also Backhouse and Cherrier 2014). These articles suggest that signiˆcant...

... of the advances in sta- tistical methods may not have the same relevance and significance to social science problems that they do for other more experimental sci- ences. The stress now being placed on sampling errors in official statis- tics is entirely appropriate. I am not sure, however...

....” They were particularly encouraged by the growing use of what were being called “quasi-experimental” designs. This research did not involve new or complex statistical estimators, but instead used applications of standard least squares regression such as “regression discontinuity” or “difference...

...). Better hardware did nothing to curb the decline in computable general equilibrium modeling. And the empirical methods that emerged trium- phant from the 1980s crisis in econometrics, quasi-experimental tech- niques, appear much less computationally intensive than the structural econometrics...

... of the sociology of science, proposed that we only investigate the bbmores”of science, leaving its methods and contents to philosophy for rational investigation.* The sociology of knowledge, too, has tradi- tionally framed its goal in a way which externalizes context. To be sure, the sociology...

...) for development economics. Beyond RCTs per se, Matthew T. Panhans and John D. Singleton (2017) have documented the rise of quasi-experimental approaches using natural experiments over the last several decades. As they argue, this represents a shift in primacy from [a priori] models to methods (130...

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... Aspects of Social Interaction. In Mathematical Models in Small Group Processes , edited by J. Criswell, H. Solomon, and P. Suppes. Stanford: Stanford University Press. Moreno , J. L. 1951 . Sociometry: Experimental Method and the Science of Society . New York: Beacon. Moreno , J. L...

... in their Advances in Behavioral Economics (1987). Not surpris- ingly, they saw the investigation of the interrelations between economics and psychology as one of the defining features of behavioral economics. Green and Kagel added another characteristic, which is the use of lab- oratory experimental methods...

... and unreliable paper-and-pencil methods. Utopia followed us into the field. Here at Rummidge we have Correspondence may be addressed to the author, Science Studies Centre, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, England. 1. Place names with apologies to David Lodge...

... misreporting scandal, 84 86, 101 built on shared methods, political contexts, 86 188 93 pragmatic realism, 87 probability theory, 180 84 price index, 83 84 theory building from data, self-sufficient data, 87 184 88, 194 statistical fictions, 85 86, 105 6 experimentation, 191 statistical lie, 82, 86, 88...

... the five successive editions of his Economic Theory in Ret- rospect reflected not only Mark’s astonishing ability to synthesize his unremitting accumulation of intellectual capital but also to express his gradual (and uncertain) shift from a quasi-absolutist to a more relativist methodological...

... the five successive editions of his Economic Theory in Ret- rospect reflected not only Mark’s astonishing ability to synthesize his unremitting accumulation of intellectual capital but also to express his gradual (and uncertain) shift from a quasi-absolutist to a more relativist methodological...

... the five successive editions of his Economic Theory in Ret- rospect reflected not only Mark’s astonishing ability to synthesize his unremitting accumulation of intellectual capital but also to express his gradual (and uncertain) shift from a quasi-absolutist to a more relativist methodological...

... (and uncertain) shift from a quasi-absolutist to a more relativist methodological position. Together with Joseph Schumpeter’s History of Economic Analysis, no self-respecting historian of economic thought would start a piece of research without consulting Blaug’s mag- num opus (and his famous reader’s...

... . The Structure of Scientific Revolution . 2d ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ____. [1961] 1977 . The Function of Measurement in Modern Physical Science. In The Essential Tension . Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ____. [1976] 1977 . Mathematical versus Experimental Traditions...

..., especially demand. Besides, Schultz was a major expert on and admirer of Pareto, as well as an early member of the Econometric Society that was founded in 1930 by Fisher, Ragnar Frisch, and others. As Thurstone (1931, 139) recalled, it was Schultz who suggested that he apply the experimental methods...

...- derson’s Harvard seminar, Pareto and Methods of Scientific Investigation, attuned each man to the explanatory fruitfulness of the concepts of system, function, and equilibrium. The Pareto seminar was itself tightly imbricated with a set of theoretical and experimental techniques developed at Harvard...