natural experiments in econometrics

this video provides an example of a 'natural experiment' and how they can be put to use in econometrics. the example given is how the vietnam was lottery draft system was used as a means to estimate the effect of military participation on lifetime earnings in angrist's 1990 seminal paper. check out https://ben-lambert.com/econometrics-course-problem-sets-and-data/ for course materials, and information regarding updates on each of the courses. quite excitingly (for me at least), i am about to publish a whole series of new videos on bayesian statistics on youtube. see here for information: https://ben-lambert.com/bayesian/ accompanying this series, there will be a book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1473916364/ref=pe_3140701_247401851_em_1p_0_ti

natural experiments in econometrics