Towards chronic non-invasive stimulation: what can you learn from pain research?

What Can Economists Learn from Happiness Research?

HAPPINESS IS generally considered an ultimate goal of life; virtually everybody wants to be happy. The United States Declaration of Independence of 1776 takes it as a self-evident truth that the "pursuit of happiness" is an "unalienable right," comparable to life and liberty. It follows that economics is-or should be-about individual happiness; in particular, how do economic growth, unemploymen...

What Can You Learn from the Gait in Cats?

What You Can Learn from Wrong Causal Models

It is common for social science researchers to provide estimates of causal effects from regression models imposed on observational data. The many problems with such work are well documented and widely known. The usual response is to claim, with little real evidence, that the causal model is close enough to the “truth” that sufficiently accurate causal effects can be estimated. In this chapter, ...

DRAFT What You Can Learn From Wrong Causal Models

It is common for social science researchers to provide estimates of causal e↵ects from regression models imposed on observational data. The many problems with such work are well documented and widely known. The usual response is to claim, with little real evidence, that the causal model is close enough to the “truth” that su ciently accurate causal e↵ects can be estimated. In this chapter, a mo...

What you can learn from one gene: GLI3.

The study of patients with rare multiple congenital anomaly syndromes can provide illuminating insights into normal development and the pathogenesis of congenital anomalies. The GLI3 gene is a particularly good example as it illuminates the phenomena of pleiotropy, phenocopies, syndrome families, and evolutionary conservation of pathogenesis, and raises questions about how diagnoses are concept...