11.7 Research Design Strategies

Hopefully you feel like, “Golly. It would be really, really hard to assert some causal model and know that it is actually true.” How does this lead you to think about the role of research design in setting up your data collection?

1. If you could do the experiment to determine the effect of education on wages, how would you do it?
2. If you cannot do the experiment to determine the effect of education on wages, what are some options for where to look for data? What would you hope these areas provide to you?