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Mistake on page 74

Careful reader Israel Arroyo caught this mistake: Sir, I’m reading the amazing “Mostly Harmless” and I’ve found what I believe to be a typo-though maybe is not and I’m just getting dumber- In Chapter 3, p.74, about the end of 2nd paragraph, it says “[...] regression of Yi on Di and Xi is the same [...]
Published May 8, 2009 | Tagged | Leave a comment

Josh found a confusing argument on page 67 (how did Steve let this slip in ?!)

The bottom of page 67 discusses proxy control and suggests that if you regress the proxy on the variable of interest (schooling) and find a zero effect, you should be less inclined to worry about the bias from proxy control. This doesn’t make much sense because what we care about when assessing the bias from [...]
Published May 8, 2009 | Tagged | Leave a comment