Praise for the Peru study came from empiricists, not ideological neoliberals

Evidence

This was an elegant construction of a natural experiment. It made clever use not just of the household survey data collected by the Peruvian agency responsible for the titling program, but of the staggered timing and other features of the program itself. Among those who singled out the research for praise were scholars such as Krueger and DeLong, who were interested in promoting not a neoliberal political agenda but more empirically supported arguments in the discipline, and in the case of Krueger, strong advocates of the use of natural experiments. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1939

Categorization

• XREF: Relates to the reader’s framing distinction between the neoliberal network and the broader empirical turn in economics—the study was celebrated by Krueger and DeLong for methodological reasons. — connects to: A scholar’s ideological agenda does not invalidate the findings of their research — Robert Irwin, For Lust of Knowing: The Orientalists…, 536

Broader Connections

• A scholar’s ideological agenda does not invalidate the findings of their research #qualifies (0.75) — Robert Irwin, For Lust of Knowing, 536