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Why data is important
The economists James Heckman and Thomas Piketty explain how collecting data has been fundamental to their work on inequality.
Data about regions of the world, and the people in it, is the starting point of all economic studies on inequality. In this video, the economists James Heckman and Thomas Piketty explain how collecting data has been fundamental to their work on inequality and the policies to reduce it.
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