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Science 20 October 2000:
Vol. 290. no. 5491, p. 427
DOI: 10.1126/science.290.5491.427
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ECONOMICS NOBEL:
Dealing With Biases and Discrete Choices

Charles Seife

This year's Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences, given in honor of Alfred Nobel, goes to two researchers who gave the field of microeconomics--the study of individuals' economic behavior--new tools to help draw conclusions from imperfect data. James Heckman of the University of Chicago wins half of this year's prize for coming up with ways to deal with selection biases. Daniel McFadden of the University of California, Berkeley, tackled a different conundrum: how to quantify discrete choices rather than continuous ones.

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