The prize that goes to winners of The Enlightened Economist book of the year prize is the offer of lunch or dinner with me. Latest winners Josh Angrist and Steve Pischke, authors of [amazon_link id=”0691152845″ target=”_blank” ]Mastering ‘Metrics[/amazon_link] (the winning title) and [amazon_link id=”0691120358″ target=”_blank” ]Mostly Harmless Econometrics[/amazon_link], took me up on that today. It was a most enjoyable lunch, and I learnt that they’re currently writing an article on how to teach econometrics – apart from the obvious: use their book.

The two Masters of ‘Metrics

In fact, Mastering ‘Metrics is a brilliant text to use for undergraduate econometrics. From what they said at lunch, the article will have other good advice. Let’s hope the teaching of econometrics becomes part of the broader wave of curriculum reform, spearheaded by CORE.

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