Stanford celebrates Guido Imbens (and natural experiments)

Here's a nice article about Guido Imbens in the Stanford GSB magazine:

An Unexpected Result: How Nobelist Guido Imbens Helped Kick-Start the “Credibility Revolution”  Years of patient collaboration generated insights that have narrowed the gap between economics and the real world.  April 15, 2022  | by Julia Kane

"Imbens had been sitting in his office in Harvard’s economics department, thinking about the problem for so long that his head hurt. When the seed of an idea popped into his mind, he jotted down some notes, paused, and realized, “This is pretty much the best thought I’ve had.”

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“Nobody had really started off on that journey thinking that this is where it would go,” Imbens says, “but this does feel like an end to a journey — a very unexpected end."