Dear Sandra and David,

 

You wrote: Now that natural experiments are widely used for identification of econometric models, we’d encourage papers on the history of natural experiments. John Snow’s work on cholera and the Milton Friedman-George Stigler use the SF earthquake as an exogenous shock to the housing market are common knowledge. But those are hundred years apart; is there anything in the gap?




Please cite the Stigler/Friedman piece on the SF earthquake shock to the housing market.  I need to consult it w.r.t. my own research on the subject.

 

Thank you,

 

Mason Gaffney

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