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  1. A curated list of our technical postings (World Bank) for econometrics issues; Recent Applied Micro Econometrics techniques

  2. Gotcha!? Tips and tricks for the economics seminar

  3. Data for Development Impact

  4. Some Latex Templates

  5. Stata Coding Guide, Clean multiple Excel Files; Stata and Python Translation; Python and Econometrics

  6. Linear Model with Multiple Fixed Effects

  7. Making tables from Stata and from R; visualisation with R; Stata for Undergrad

  8. Even Study with R; Deep Learning for Economists; ML for Data Science (with Ethics); Causal Inference for Stats

  9. Undergraduate Econometrics with R (from Science Po's Department of Economics). Statisticall Inference and Regression; Time Series (Forecasting) with R; Mixtape Sessions (collection of applied econometrics short courses)

  10. Undergraduate level's computational economics with Python, and advanced level courses; Python and Data Science for Public Policy from LSE and Chicago; Data Scaping (Duke), Text Analysis, 

  11. Data Science for Economists (University of Oregon); web-scraping

  12. Master-level Prediction and ML (Good course for Year 3 UK, this book, a version found here, is good, more techniques)

  13. Statistical packages for RDD

  14. Better LATE than nothing (Imbens, JEL, 2009)

  15. Applied Research Methods for PhD; MIT courses

  16. Advice for research students

  17. Interview with David Card on economics research

  18. Testing the significance of a product of two coefficients (Or, equivalently, Ho: beta1 = 0 or beta2 = 0). This is an interesting question in the meditation analysis literature. See this for a review of conventional tests and why they won't work.   See this for a new approach.  The nlcom command in Stata. 

  19. Interaction terms for logit/probit models. Be careful.; testing one-sided multiple hypothesis? Use an LR test.

  20. PhD's training course: https://github.com/paulgp/applied-methods-phd 

  21. A collection of various statistical methods with different statistical software: https://lost-stats.github.io/Machine_Learning/Machine_Learning.html 

  22. Stata to Latex guide: https://medium.com/the-stata-guide/the-stata-to-latex-guide-6e7ed5622856

  23. Exogenous IV? https://www.stata-journal.com/article.html?article=st0538 

  24. Exercises for Machine Learning courses: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2206.13446.pdf, and a classic textbook for probablistic Machine Learning; OLS and ML by Cameron

  25. Most exciting developments in statistics in the last 50 years?

  26. Sampling-based versus design-based uncertainty in regression analysis (Abadie et al., 2020, Econometrica): discusses how to calculate the standard error (sampling uncertainty) under the design-based uncertainty (randomness comes from the assignment of the treatment, instead of random sampling). This is useful for applications where a population of interest is observed in its entirety. Another approach to using the "super-population" argument for when we observe the entire population but report standard errors. 

  27. Inflation and Interest Rate Targets - a nice summary from the NBER

  28. Another fundamental read from Abadie et al. 2022 (ReStud) - why do we use clustered standard error?

  29. Jon Steinsson's Macroeconomics teaching materials

  30. A Github for Digital Analysis using Benford's Law

  31. Big Data for Finance Tools

  32. Taking logs when the dependent variable has many zero values. (NBER working paper)

  33. Difference in Differences Literature; What to do if parallel trend fails?

  34. Charities in the US (with data) JPE Micro (2023)

  35. Theory papers: Designing interrogation (ReStud, 2024); and Misinformation Online (ReStud, 2024); the Economics of Bitcoin (QJE, 25)

  36. Lecture Notes: Game Theory (Caltech); and an X thread on many maths courses

  37. Robustness with OVB: changing signs and attenuating: https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.00552 

  38. The Economics of (Gen)AI Collection: (i) Machine Translation improves American-Spanish trades on Ebay (MS, 2019); (ii) GenAI in research (LSE, 2025); (iii) GenAI and Work Productivity (QJE, 2025), more references here (iv) brief intro in GenAI (Google, 2025), GenAI Hallucination and Skills; JEP

  39. Mediation Analysis to avoid bad control? 

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