A beginner-friendly walk-through of six treatment-effects estimators in Stata --- regression adjustment, IPW, IPWRA, AIPW, nearest-neighbor matching, and propensity-score matching --- applied to the classic maternal-smoking and birth-weight case study.
A beginner-friendly tutorial on the synthetic control method in R, using the Basque Country case study to estimate the economic cost of conflict on regional GDP per capita from 1970 to 1997.
Estimate the within-country dynamic effect of war on log GDP per capita using Arellano-Bond GMM in Stata, reproducing Thies and Baum (2020) on a 1955-2015 panel of 160 countries.
Replicate Hodler and Raschky (2014) to estimate the causal effect of economic shocks on civil conflict using 2SLS instrumental variables with panel data from 5,689 African regions
Estimate the causal effect of California's Proposition 99 tobacco control program on cigarette sales using the synthetic control method in Stata, with in-space placebo, in-time placebo, and leave-one-out robustness tests
Evaluate the causal effect of a school tutoring program on student exit exam scores using sharp regression discontinuity design with parametric OLS and nonparametric rdrobust estimation in Stata
A hands-on guide to the fwlplot package in R --- from understanding the Frisch-Waugh-Lovell theorem through simulated confounding to visualizing fixed effects in real panel data --- showing what "controlling for" looks like as a scatter plot.
A hands-on guide to the scatterfit package in Stata --- from understanding the Frisch-Waugh-Lovell theorem through simulated confounding to visualizing fixed effects in real panel data --- showing what "controlling for" looks like as a scatter plot.
A guide to Difference-in-Differences with staggered treatment --- from TWFE pitfalls through Callaway-Sant'Anna group-time ATTs, doubly robust estimation, and HonestDiD sensitivity analysis --- applied to minimum wage effects on teen employment.
Assess how robust difference-in-differences results are to violations of parallel trends using the honestdid package in Stata, progressing from a simple 2x2 DiD to multi-period event studies with relative magnitudes and smoothness restrictions