Economist hunting for a historical instrumental variable accidentally becomes a Central Asia historian
JMateosGarcia · x · 2026-10-24
An academic meme: an economist writing a paper with a historical instrumental variable ends up cramming Central Asian history for 24 hours — poking fun at how empirical economics research drags scholars into obscure history in search of natural experiments.
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