Research Methods
Introductory
Credibility Revolution
A shift in applied empirical research toward research designs that make causal identification assumptions explicit and empirically assessable.
Why It Matters
For empirical legal studies, the idea encourages researchers to connect legal events to transparent identification strategies rather than rely only on uncontrolled correlations.
Selected Literature
A short list of directly relevant archive entries.
2009
Introductory
Mostly Harmless Econometrics: An Empiricist's Companion
Joshua D. Angrist and Jörn-Steffen Pischke
Princeton University Press
2010
Intermediate
The Credibility Revolution in Empirical Economics: How Better Research Design Is Taking the Con out of Econometrics
Joshua D. Angrist and Jörn-Steffen Pischke
Journal of Economic Perspectives
2017
Intermediate
The State of Applied Econometrics: Causality and Policy Evaluation
Susan Athey and Guido W. Imbens
Journal of Economic Perspectives
2021
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