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The credibility revolution, with its emphasis on empirical methods for causal inference, has led to concerns among scholars that the canonical questions about politics and society are being neglected because they are no longer deemed answerable. 'Theory and Credibility' stakes out an opposing view - presenting a new vision of how, working together, the credibility revolution and formal theory can advance social scientific inquiry. This authoritative book covers the conceptual foundations and practicalities of both model building and research design, providing a new framework to link theory and empirics.

Science --- Sociological theory building --- Methods in social research (general) --- Social sciences - Research - Philosophy. --- Quantitative research. --- Mathematical models. --- Empiricism. --- Social sciences --- Behavioral sciences --- Human sciences --- Sciences, Social --- Social science --- Social studies --- Civilization --- Data analysis (Quantitative research) --- Exploratory data analysis (Quantitative research) --- Quantitative analysis (Research) --- Quantitative methods (Research) --- Research --- Models, Mathematical --- Simulation methods --- Philosophy. --- A Model Discipline. --- David M. Primo. --- Elements of Research Design. --- Kevin A. Clarke. --- Methods and Models. --- Natural Experiments in the Social Sciences. --- Rebecca B. Morton. --- Thad Dunning. --- all-else-equal relationships. --- disentangling. --- distinguishing. --- elaborating. --- empirical analysis. --- external validity. --- extrapolation. --- game theory. --- incrementalism. --- intentional explanations. --- portability. --- quantitative methods. --- reinterpretation. --- reinterpreting. --- robustness. --- similarityall-else-equal claims. --- social phenomena. --- transparency.

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Over the past 30 years, the share of adult populations with college degrees increased more in cities with higher initial schooling levels than in initially less educated places. This tendency appears to be driven by shifts in labor demand as there is an increasing wage premium for skilled people working in skilled cities. In this paper, we present a model where the clustering of skilled people in metropolitan areas is driven by the tendency of skilled entrepreneurs to innovate in ways that employ other skilled people and by the elasticity of housing supply.