Updates with links and video clips
or "how I woke up at 3am in Barcelona and can't go back to sleep"
Greetings from Barcelona! It’s 3am and I just woke up and decided to get dressed and go downstairs and ask the hotel lobby if they’d mind making me a cappuccino. They agreed, so here I am. Thought I’d treat this as a blog post, and just post links and video clips that you may find interesting before I dive into prepping for my second day of workshopping at the University of Barcelona.
Random thoughts about diff-in-diff and synthetic control
Yesterday, day 1, of the workshop went good I think. The audience wanted me to cover covariates and staggered adoption. But the way that I teach, if you’ve seen it, you know I am hard pressed to get to a point. Ordinarily my workshops on diff in diff take four days. But, as I’ve always known, and you too I’m sure, when the editor says you need to cut it 75%, you find that there’s a lot of ways to do it. So I cut a ton and it went well, and that makes me think now my diff in diff workshop, with all its meandering and history of thought and clip…
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