The authors concluded that more natural experiments are needed to strengthen the evidence base about obesity-related policies and interventions. They also recommend more natural experiments to explore ...

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

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In Natural Experiments of History, Jared Diamond and his co-editor James A. Robinson look at different theories in the social sciences and discuss methodologies of analysis—all in hot pursuit of ...

Natural Experiments Joyner’s paradigmatic example of a natural experiment is the London transport workers study, which is often cited as the starting point for modern research on physical ...

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 ...

Natural experiments help to overcome some of the obstacles researchers face when making causal inferences in the social sciences. However, even when natural interventions are randomly assigned, some ...

Natural Experiments Make the Case for Liberty One of this year’s Nobel Prize winners in economics inadvertently created a pro-liberty methodology. John Hood | 10.14.2021 3:30 PM ...

Such “natural experiments,” in which some event or factor has randomized participants into experimental and control groups, have been especially hard to find during the pandemic.