[Script Info] Title: [Events] Format: Layer, Start, End, Style, Name, MarginL, MarginR, MarginV, Effect, Text Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- [Narrator] The path from cause \Nto effect is dark and dangerous. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the weapons \Nof Econometrics are strong. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Attack] with fierce \Nand flexible instrumental variables Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when nature blesses you \Nwith fortuitous random assignment. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[gong rings] Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Randomized trials are the surest \Npath to ceteris parabus comparisons. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Alas, this powerful tool \Nis often unavailable. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But sometimes, randomization \Nhappens by accident. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's when we turn \Nto instrumental variables, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,IV for short. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- [Voice whispers] Instrumental \Nvariables. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- [Narrator] Today's lesson \Nis the first of two on IV. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our first IV lesson begins \Nwith a story of schools. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- [Josh] Charter schools \Nare public schools Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,freed from daily district oversight\Nand teacher union contracts. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The question of whether charters \Nboost achievement Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is one of the most important Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the history \Nof American education reform.