#differences-in-differences

[economistsdoitwithmodels]

Causal Friday: Some Real Effects of the Flint Water Crisis…

On Fridays, we examine a research paper that uses (or fails to use) a clever method to perform causal inference, i.e. to tease out cause and effect. In case you haven’t been keeping up, I&#82…

Depressing and a good use of data analysis tools, all in one...

[economistsdoitwithmodels]

Causal Friday: The Dumbest Differences-in-Differences Ever, Viral Video Edition…

It’s causal Friday, so I’m poking around in some data trying to make a case for cause and effect. More specifically, I’m drowning in a differences-in-differences analysis trying t…

I have to admit, I kind of feel like my super nuanced efforts to tease out non-obvious cause and effect were a little wasted...