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Saturday, August 11, 2012

Economics Moment of Zen #3

Posted on 7:01 AM by Unknown
"Just because the data are suited to the identification strategy doesn't mean the data are suited to answer the research question"

- Another anonymous reviewer of a paper for which I was an anonymous reviewer
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