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

The 2021 Nobel prize in economics was awarded Monday to three economists for pioneering "natural experiments" to show real-world impacts. Joshua Angrist, David Card and Guido Imbens have researched ...

Banning sodas from school vending machines, building walking paths and playgrounds, adding supermarkets to food deserts and requiring nutritional labels on restaurant menus: Such changes to the ...

A natural experiment is an empirical study in which individuals (or clusters of individuals) are exposed to the experimental and control conditions that are determined by nature or by other factors ...

A top Massachusetts Institute of Technology labor economist claimed a share of the 2021 Nobel Prize for Economics Monday for his work in advancing “natural experiments,” which apply economic theories ...

The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded Monday to David Card of the University of California, Berkeley, Joshua Angrist of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Guido Imbens ...