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10. The Ends of Your Means

verfasst von : Darren Grant

Erschienen in: Methods of Economic Research

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

This chapter lays out the first steps to bringing closure to an empirical study. Above all, this involves pursuing “coherence,” in which the study’s findings, economic theory, and vernacular knowledge about the phenomenon of interest coalesce into a logically consistent, unified whole. The pursuit of coherence is multifaceted, and extends to the larger literature to which the study belongs. These ideas inform studies of the demand for cigarettes, zero tolerance drunk driving laws, The Great Moderation, and more.

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One of these papers, Hingson et al. (1989), finds that youth fatalities fall by 20% in a state that recently adopted a zero tolerance law, but also by a similar amount in a control state, and concludes ambivalently. For those studies in Table 10.1 that cite this paper favorably, this 20% estimate is used in calculating their “fatality” entry in the penultimate row of the table, since this row’s purpose is to compare each study’s findings to its own literature-based assessment of zero tolerance laws’ effects on fatalities.

I found these by typing “point shaving” into Econ Lit–that’s all. With two minor exceptions, everything that came up that wasn’t Wolfers’ paper was a rebuttal to it.

Ironically, this handful excludes Bernhardt and Heston, though they appropriate two of Borghesi’s arguments in their paper. Gregory (2018) isn’t much better.

I don’t know what this phrase is referring to. Bernhardt and Heston analyze nearly 45,000 basketball games, a large sample, even when it is cut different ways.

And did, and removed them for space considerations.

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Titel: The Ends of Your Means
verfasst von: Darren Grant
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Buch: Methods of Economic Research
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-01733-0

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-01734-7

Copyright-Jahr: 2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01734-7_10