An open reference for students of econometrics

Every method in your textbook came from a paper. Here they all are, in order.

This archive links the chapters of ten canonical econometrics textbooks to the papers behind them and explains each paper in the same plain terms: what problem it answered, what it did, why it matters, and where you meet it.

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Click a dot to open the paper. Gold ring = canon paper.Open this chapter →
1 · Zoom out

Two hundred years, eleven lineages, one map

Every chapter's thread runs through the same larger story. Scroll: each era lights up on the map, with the canon papers it produced. Click any of them to read it.

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2 · Read one paper

Every paper answers the same five questions

Wherever you open a paper in the archive, the card is the same. Here is a real one, White (1980), with its parts labelled.

1The claim in one line. What the paper is remembered for, so you know within seconds whether it is the one you need.
2Problem, method, impact. The question that was open, what the paper did about it, and what changed afterwards, including what the method cannot do.
3Where you meet it. Every textbook chapter the paper belongs to, with its role there: origin, core, extension, critique, application or history. Click a chapter to see its other papers.
4Before and after. What the paper built on and what built on it. This is how you read a method as a conversation rather than a formula.
5Go further. The same paper on the map, in the timeline, in its chapter, and on OpenAlex or Google Scholar for the full text.
3 · Pick a path

The canon, in the order your textbook introduces it

Forty-eight papers established a standard method in at least four of the ten textbooks. Read them in course order and you have the spine of the field. Choose the path that matches where you are.

4 · What is inside, and why

Chosen by rule, not by taste

A paper is here because a textbook chapter rests on it. A paper is marked canon because a stated rule, computed from the data, says so. Both rules are printed here so you can disagree with them precisely.