George Box has said "The only way to find out what will happen when a complex system is disturbed is to disturb the system, not merely to observe it passively." These words of caution about "natural experiments" are uncomfortably strong. Yet in today's world we see no alternative to accepting them as, if anything, too weak.
George Box has said "The only way to find out what will happen when a complex system is disturbed is to disturb the system, not merely to observe it passively." These words of caution about "natural experiments" are uncomfortably strong. Yet in today's world we see no alternative to accepting them as, if anything, too weak.
- by Fred Mosteller and John Tukey, 1977-
Kyung Min Lee
Kyung Min Lee
Economist
Finance, Competitiveness, and Innovation Global Practice
World Bank Group
Research Fields
Research Fields
Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Technology, Policy Evaluation
Labor Economics, Health Economics, Public Finance,
Contact
Contact
Email: klee12@worldbank.org
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/kyungminlee
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=jCrrjSEAAAAJ&hl=en