'Metrics Notes


"One Weird Trick" to Characterize Effective Populations in Design-Based Specifications, September 2025 [Note]


A Crash Course in Design-Based Econometrics, Spring 2025

Introduction to "Design" [Slides]

Weak IV, Weights and Clusters [Slides]

Formulas and Models [Slides]


Undergraduate Econometrics Lecture Slides, Spring 2024

Introduction [Slides]

Probability and Statistics [Slides]

Asymptotic Statistics [Slides]

Introduction to Regression [Slides]

Multivariate Regression [Slides]

Panel Data [Slides]

Instrumental Variables [Slides]

Regression Discontinuity [Slides] 

Note: some of these slides were co-developed with Jon Roth


The Role of Models in "Reduced Form" Empirics, March 2024 [Slides]


Graduate Applied Econometrics Lecture Slides, Spring 2024

Regression Recap [Slides]

Selection on Observables [Slides]

Parallel Trends [Slides]

Negative Weights [Slides]

Clustering [Slides]

IV Mechanics [Slides]

IV Identification [Slides]

Shift-Share and Recentered IV [Slides]

Regression Discontinuity [Slides]

Nonlinear Models [Slides]


On Quasi-Experimental Shift-Share IV with Heterogeneous Treatment Effects, with Kirill Borusyak. July 2023 [Note]


"Stacking" Regressions, February 2022 [Twitter thread]


The Bayesian Bootstrap, January 2022 [Twitter thread]


Subtracting the Propensity Score in Linear Models, September 2018 [Note]


On Residualized Outcome Regressions, March 2018 [Note]


Interpreting Instrumented Difference-in-Differences, with Sally Hudson & Jack Liebersohn. September 2017 [Note]


Examiner Designs and First-Stage F Statistics: A Caution, March 2017 [Note]