Design-Based Research in Empirical Microeconomics

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Card, David
• 署名单位: University of California System; University of California Berkeley
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0002-8282
• DOI: 10.1257/aer.112.6.1773
• 发表日期: 2022
• 页码: 1773-1781
• 关键词: minimum-wage; LABOR; IMPACT; EMPLOYMENT; ECONOMICS; earnings; monopsony; mortality; MARKET; MODEL

摘要

I briefly review the emergence of design-based research methods in labor economics in the 1980s and early 1990s. These methods were seen as a partial solution to the problems of credible inference identi-fied by Ashenfelter (1974), Leamer (1978), Hendry (1980), and oth-ers. Designed-based studies typically use a simplified one-equation model of the outcome of interest-in contrast to model-based studies that specify a data generating process for all factors determining the outcome. I discuss some of the strengths and weaknesses of the design-based approach and the value of such research in the field. (JEL C20, J01,J24, J31, J38, J51, J53)