For one thing, the Lazarsfeldian method is empiricist, that is concerned to discover empirical regularities or patterns among phenomena.

Endogenous growth theory was satisfied with accounting for empirical regularities in the growth process of developed economies over the last hundred years.

This negative association between human fertility and socio-economic development has been "one of the most solidly established and generally accepted empirical regularities in the social sciences".

Wage compression refers to the empirical regularity that firms, given their wage policies, prefer better workers over poorer workers for any given job.

Their search was for empirical regularity.

Econometricians searched for empirical regularities, eventually producing Keynesian models of quite staggering complexity.

But "it would be an odd reaction," he said, one out of tune with the "empirical regularities of the past."

"The belief that universal empirical regularities can be found in many areas of economic activity."

He proposed three laws on these empirical regularities:

What we have here, it seems to me, is a striking empirical regularity: kids whose kindergarten class does particularly well tend to do well in adulthood.