For the last week and a half, I’ve been in Turino Italy. I was invited to present my work on mental illness classification in jail, suicidality and the length of the stay as a keynote speaker at a student led conference last week, teach a workshop on difference-in-differences and synthetic control this week and serve on a dissertation defense for the young and talented Redding and University of Torino PhD student, Caterina Muratori (now a postdoc in San Diego with Joe Sabia’s applied micro lab) today. I spent the weekend in beautiful Florence, and on Saturday fly to Melbourne for the Natural Experiments conference to service as a keynote speaker. The plan is to tell the story, or a story as there is never any “the story”, on select pioneers in the history of diff-in-diff and instrumental variables using data, stories and interviews with some of the people themselves (except for Ignaz Semmelweis who sadly died in a mental hospital over 150 years ago). I’m sure there is a saying in Ital…
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