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  1. A curated list of our technical postings (World Bank) for econometrics issues; Recent Applied Micro Econometrics techniques; Gotcha!? Tips and tricks for the economics seminar

  2. Maths problems from Olympiads around the world - training data for ML models.

  3. Estimators for Panel Data Analysis (including DiD), DiD Survey; 

  4. So 2SLS is not always LATE (ReStud, 2026); IMPORTANT: new Stata command regsensitivity for OVB robustness (even when not including the OV) (AER, 2026); the authors' intro to causality videos

  5. Data for Development Impact

  6. Some Latex Templates

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

  8. Linear Model with Multiple Fixed Effects

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

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

  11. 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)

  12. 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, 

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

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

  15. Statistical packages for RDD

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

  17. Applied Research Methods for PhD; MIT courses

  18. Advice for research students

  19. Interview with David Card on economics research

  20. 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. 

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

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

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

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

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

  26. 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

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

  28. 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. 

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

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

  31. Jon Steinsson's Macroeconomics teaching materials

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

  33. Big Data for Finance Tools; ML for Human Preferences

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

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

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

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

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

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

  40. 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

  41. Mediation Analysis to avoid bad control? 

  42. OVB with interaction? If X is exogenous conditioning on a control Z, then if we include X*H, we need to include also Z*H (for example, controling for fixed effect). Restat 2025.

  43. A course on quantitative methods for social science (suitable for public policy)

  44. AI Agent for Economics Research; Can AI Master Econometrics?

 

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