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Eric Schneider
@ericbschneider
Economic historian @LSEEcHist studying living standards and health; @ESRC funded project on tracking British children's growth 1850-1990; Colorado hiker.
Jun 25, 2020 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
I don't want to revive the #EconTwitter DAG wars, but I thought I'd share my new working paper 'Collider Bias in Economic History Research'.

Collider bias is a unified and (relatively) intuitive way to present many forms of bias to causal inference.

cepr.org/active/publica…

1/n Image I present 10 examples of collider bias in economic history research.

I focus on cases where authors overcome or mitigate the bias. The cases illustrate how to diagnose bias and come up with creative solutions to manage it.

And now on to some examples:

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May 16, 2018 • 10 tweets • 7 min read
These tweets summarise the findings from a recent conference on child #stunting held at @LSEEcHist last September sponsored by @ESRC @cepr_org @LSEnews #globalhealth.

See this video for a summary:

1/10 Here is also a full copy of the #stunting conference report for those who are interested in the details and in references to the most recent research currently being conducted: goo.gl/LcV1S2

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