Workshop announcement and getting back on track

Workshop part

Monday’s are supposed to be my “Mixtape Mailbag”, where I answer questions sent to me from readers, but in fact I am behind. It’ll take me a tiny bit to get that back up and going as I’ve misplaced the emails I think. If you have any to send me, though, please send them again even and you get a 1 month free subscription if I use it and respond.

The work trip, which I’ll explain below in my behind the paywall “Personal part”, shares that I spent a week in Germany doing a workshop over my spring break. And I didn’t get it done. Nor did I fully finish the material on continuous treatment, though I made a big new dent in it and so I am excited to say that it will be part of what I cover in the new difference-in-differences workshop for Mixtape Sessions starting this weekend on March 16th, 9am to 5pm CST. Here’s the link and here’s an itinerary.

Probably day 4 I will need to drop Wooldridge’s Mundlak estimator and most likely Fuzzy too so that I can spend the day more on continuous treatments. There are as I count it four continuous diff-in-diff papers out right now and I just have to start getting back into the major discipline of reading and writing, reading and writing, using the substack to do explainers. And so I’ll have Callaway, Goodman-Bacon and Sant’Anna’s new estimator finished by March 24th so that we have a deeper dive than before. But I am thinking most likely of doing a continuous diff-in-diff workshop as a one off so that this diff-in-diff workshop can continue to be mainly about the basics, TWFE, covariates and differential timing.

For another workshop, I was thinking of this as a possible way of organizing the material: non-binary treatments, non-binary instruments. I thought that might allow me to move more deeply into areas that I need to both with IV and with diff-in-diff. Here was the example workshop I had in mind. So I may just make this partly what I do on here — just trying to run this down and see if when I’m done there is some pattern that would make for more than merely some intellectual exercise, but in fact something consequential and empirically useful.

Those diff-in-diff ones are, by the way, continuous treatments. I called them sharp and fuzzy, but they’re the continuous or multi-valued treatments, and maybe I could even put in there multiple treatments too. There’s a lot by De Chaisemartin and D’Haultfoeille that I need to just sit down and do a major retooling on, and so I was thinking this might be a way to do it. All while working on the Mixtape remix, all while working on a keynote, all while working on my workshops, all while teaching my classes, all while working on my prison and jails research.

But, for now, I encourage you to come to the diff-in-diff workshop this weekend where I hope to have more enhanced work on triple differences, deeper material on covariates than before, a bit more fleshed out material on imputation, and continuous treatment. And I’ll be scaling back my big “history of causal inference in economics” thing with all my video clips. I think it’s not quite working for anyone except me, so I’m going to pull that back. Anyway, come one and come all! The next part is personal and it covers discussion of my mental health and so forth and truly I say probably that is something best suited for the paying subscribers.