Before Card, it had been widely accepted that boosting the minimum wage would cost jobs.
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David Card, Josh Angrist and Guido Imbens pushed economics closer to the traditional sciences with experiments that mimicked the randomised trials in drug tests.
Their big contribution was that auctions aren’t just auctions. How an auction is designed matters enormously for what it does.
The 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics pays tribute to randomized control trials, but can they really help us fight poverty?
This year’s Nobel Prize is important both for what it recognises and who it recognises.
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Professor of Economics, UNSW Sydney
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Directrice de recherche à l'IRD-Cessma (Université de Paris), affiliée à l’Institut Français de Pondichéry, Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD)
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Économiste, statisticien, directeur de recherche à l’IRD et membre de l’UMR LEDa - DIAL, Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD)
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