Carlos Mendez
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What Does TWFE Actually Do? Manual Demeaning and the FWL Theorem
Manual demeaning vs two-way fixed effects --- showing that TWFE is just OLS on demeaned data through the Frisch-Waugh-Lovell theorem, with a hands-on proof using a Barro convergence panel of 150 countries.
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