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Credible Discourse on Climate Policy: Beyond Dueling Certitudes
Charles F. Manski
Whatever the policy question under consideration, reasoned and realistic evaluation requires credible policy analysis under uncertainty. This holds particularly to the study of cli…
Systemic Methodological Dysfunction in Statistical Research for Clinical Decisions
Charles F. Manski
I critique a set of entrenched methodological conventions that collectively create systemic dysfunction in statistical research for clinical decisions. These include: (1) the preva…
Coping with Inductive Risk When Theories are Underdetermined: Decision Making with Partial Identification
Charles F. Manski
Controversy about the significance of underdetermination of theories persists in the philosophy and conduct of science. The issue has practical import when research is used to info…
What is the general Welfare? Welfare Economic Perspectives on Equity
Charles F. Manski
Researchers do not know what the framers of the United States Constitution intended when they wrote of the general Welfare. Nevertheless, economists can conjecture by specifying so…
Prediction with Differential Covariate Classification: Illustrated by Covariate Classification in Medical Risk Assessment
Atheendar S. Venkataramani, Charles F. Manski, John Mullahy
A common practice in evidence-based decision-making uses estimates of conditional probabilities P(y|x) obtained from research studies to predict outcomes y on the basis of observed…
Using Ordinal Voting to Compare the Utilitarian Welfare of a Status Quo and A Proposed Policy: A Simple Nonparametric Analysis
Charles F. Manski
The relationship of policy choice by majority voting and by maximization of utilitarian welfare has long been discussed. I consider choice between a status quo and a proposed polic…