{"id":131466,"date":"2021-10-14T13:32:59","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T11:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=131466"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:25:55","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:25:55","slug":"imbens-looked-for-convincing-evidence-to-determine-whether-policy-was-working-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2021\/10\/14\/imbens-looked-for-convincing-evidence-to-determine-whether-policy-was-working-or-not\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Imbens looked for convincing evidence to determine whether policy was working or not\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Professor Dinand Webbink about the contribution Nobel Prize winner and EUR alumnus Guido Imbens made to his field of study: \u201cImbens and his colleague Joshua Angrist have set the standard for how we currently conduct empirical research in economics.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The groundbreaking work in Econometrics performed by EUR alumnus Guido Imbens and his colleague Joshua Angrist has set new standard for economics research. The methods he developed are now being taught in lecture halls where he himself once studied Econometrics. \u201cGuido Imbens\u2019 work was focused on making research as convincing as possible so that you could obtain credible evidence as to whether a certain intervention was working or not\u201d, explains Dinand Webbink, professor of Policy Evaluation at Erasmus School of Economics. He uses Imbens\u2019 methods to determine the causal effect of education policy, such as what impact higher salaries for teachers has on children\u2019s learning achievements.<\/p>\n\n\t

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