Pushing New Ideas (Guido Imbens, Josh Angrist, Isaiah Andrews)

When Josh Angrist and Guido Imbens created the LATE theorem (for which they later won the Nobel Prize), they knew they had something special - but not everyone else did! Check out their discussion with Isaiah Andrews on LATE’s initial reception, dealing with criticism, and the challenges of interdisciplinary collaboration (which they faced when working with statistician Donald Rubin).
More about Guido Imbens: www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-...
More about Joshua Angrist: economics.mit.edu/faculty/ang...
More about Isaiah Andrews: scholar.harvard.edu/iandrews/...
00:00 - Intro
00:18 - Initial LATE Theorem impressions
02:34 - Dealing with criticism
06:48 - Interdisciplinary communication

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9:56 "Everyone always wants to figure out quickly ... you want to save time, you want to save your brain cells for other things. The fastest route to that is to figure out why you should dismiss something."