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The Credibility Revolution in Empirical Economics: How Better Research Design is Taking the Con out of Econometrics. NBER Working Paper No. 15794
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Angrist, Joshua; Pischke, Jorn-Steffen – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2010
This essay reviews progress in empirical economics since Leamer'rs (1983) critique. Leamer highlighted the benefits of sensitivity analysis, a procedure in which researchers show how their results change with changes in specification or functional form. Sensitivity analysis has had a salutary but not a revolutionary effect on econometric practice.…
Descriptors: Research Design, Macroeconomics, Credibility, Essays
Inductive Reasoning: A Training Approach
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Klauer, Karl Josef; Phye, Gary D. – Review of Educational Research, 2008
Researchers have examined inductive reasoning to identify different cognitive processes when participants deal with inductive problems. This article presents a prescriptive theory of inductive reasoning that identifies cognitive processing using a procedural strategy for making comparisons. It is hypothesized that training in the use of the…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Intelligence Tests, Logical Thinking, Thinking Skills
System Dynamics in Distance Education and a Call to Develop a Standard Model
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Shaffer, Steven C. – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2005
This paper describes systems dynamics, reviews the literature of uses of systems concepts in distance education (DE), presents a preliminary model, and ends in a call to researchers to contribute to the building of a standard model of DE. (Contains 4 figures.)
Descriptors: Distance Education, Systems Approach, Models, Researchers