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thank you for coming to the Journal of econometrics uh session um this is called what's a standard uh error um let me just give you a little bit background um so this is the journal's 50th birthday and we have planned um something um at this this year's Assa meeting for uh for three years um a variety of things including a session um uh so a year ago we sent an email to um the five speakers today and this this was exactly our email so to give you some background apply work in econometrics and social sciences are confronted with new sources of data such as network data experimental data text and graphical data and other unusual designs some researchers feel the need to forego standard errors because of large sample sizes and furthermore administrative data that may contain a whole population of Interest so do we really need standard errors so the overarching question that we're interested in is how should we think about summarizing uncertainty so this motivates um the session which is w