It is hard to know where to start with how naive this article is.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/30/upshot/coronavirus-economists-dexamethasone.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nythealth …
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As one colleague emailed me facetiously "Can you please forward this to John Snow?"
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Notwithstanding that economists historically favor different techniques for causal inference from observational data, making such inference is the goal of much observational epidemiology (not all -- sometimes we aim for description or prediction)https://amstat.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09332480.2019.1579578#.XwHw6pNJH_Q …
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There is a well-developed body of theory about causal inference in epidemiology, of which natural experiments are one of many tools https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/miguel-hernan/causal-inference-book/ …. This article is at least 2 decades out of date.
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What on earth? Wow. Natural experiment papers are... there in epidemiology. This feels similar to the way "behavior economics" gets touted as something new/big. In reality, it was a crime against science that sociology and psychology were not used by economists until then.
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