Regarding David Henderson’s op-ed “ ‘Natural Experiments’ Lead to an Economics Nobel” (Oct. 12): Natural experiments require circumstances in which political events, geopolitical boundaries and so ...

The 2021 Nobel prize in economics was awarded Monday to three economists for pioneering "natural experiments" to show real-world impacts. Joshua Angrist, David Card and Guido Imbens have researched ...

Three U.S.-based economists are sharing this year's Nobel memorial prize for their work on "natural experiments" which get around the need for controlled experiments. During the pandemic, we've heard ...

Banning sodas from school vending machines, building walking paths and playgrounds, adding supermarkets to food deserts and requiring nutritional labels on restaurant menus: Such changes to the ...

Shift Happens is my favorite bumper sticker. I love the genuineness of natural experiments, when shifts in policy, practice or environment stimulate changes. As a scientist, I’m supposed to value the ...

A natural experiment is an empirical study in which individuals (or clusters of individuals) are exposed to the experimental and control conditions that are determined by nature or by other factors ...

Cleo McVicker made soap in Cincinnati. Then came the Great Depression. By 1933, his company reeling, McVicker pitched the Kroger grocery store chain on a new product: a cleanser designed specifically ...

Randomized controlled trials remain the gold standard, but natural experiments can help doctors who need answers now. By Anupam B. Jena and Christopher M. Worsham A drug that has recently been found ...

The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded Monday to David Card of the University of California, Berkeley, Joshua Angrist of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Guido Imbens ...