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The term ‘natural experiment’ has been used in many, often, contradictory, ways. It is not unfair to say that the term is frequently employed to describe situations that are neither ‘natural’ nor ‘experiments’ or situations which are ‘natural, but not experiments’ or vice versa.
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Dinardo, J. (2010). Natural Experiments and Quasi-Natural Experiments. In: Durlauf, S.N., Blume, L.E. (eds) Microeconometrics. The New Palgrave Economics Collection. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230280816_18
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