Diff-in-diff workshops, the story of synth, and introducing synthetic diff-in-diff

And congratulations to Claudia Goldin!

Today’s substack will be buried in most peoples inboxes and attention as it’s Nobel Prize day. But I’m trying to keep to schedule, so I’m going to do three things in this substack. First, I’m going to do my normal thing about upcoming workshops. Then I’m going to discuss a little about what I’m calling the story of synthetic control as a lead in to disc…