Good morning Vietnam! I hope everyone has had a great summer. After numerous weeks of teaching workshops including CodeChella, I am rested and ready for the fall. I wanted to share what papers I plan to review this fall in this explainer as I have set up an ambitious schedule due to a new prep. As before, I am using my substack to help discipline myself. There will be two themes this fall — a continuation of the #JHR_Threads, and new material on difference-in-differences, synthetic control and machine learning causal inference.
The first paper I intend to cover is by Susan Payne Carter (West Point) and Abigail Wozniak (Federal Reserve) entitled “Making Big Decisions: The Impact of Moves on Marriage Among US Army Personnel”, in the Journal of Human Resources (here). I will try to switch between my class readings on causal inference with #JHR_Threads every other week or maybe once a month, give or take.
The material on causal inference econometrics is lengthier as this is for a new…
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