The Econometric Model for Causal Policy Analysis
讨论因果政策分析的计量经济模型，以及统计学和计算机科学中的两种替代框架，指出经济学家若不加批判地使用替代框架，会忽略计量方法的优势，导致政策分析信息量不足。
This paper discusses the econometric model of causal policy analysis and two alternative frameworks that are popular in statistics and computer science. By employing the alternative frameworks uncritically, economists ignore the substantial advantages of an econometric approach, resulting in less informative analyses of economic policy. We show that the econometric approach to causality enables economists to characterize and analyze a wider range of policy problems than alternative approaches.