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Zimao Xiao
@zimaoxiao.bsky.social
PhD student in Env Econ at the LSE
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I'll be leading a Shift-Share Mixtape workshop on July 29th & 30th

Sign up here! www.eventbrite.com/e/shift-shar...
June 2, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Happy to share videos of 12-hour course on DIDs I taught at @liser.lu in Luxemburg. Covers in depth the first 7 chapters of our textbook, and last chapter more quickly. Use it to teach yourself (for free!) recent developments on DID! Thanks ‪@andreaecon.bsky.social‬ for class and videos!
May 9, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Just a reminder that @gmcd.bsky.social and @kylefbutts.bsky.social have made an incredible public good describing how to use data.table and fixest to encourage moving from Stata to R!

stata2r.github.io
Translating Stata to R
Learning R coming from Stata
stata2r.github.io
December 4, 2024 at 12:14 AM
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Just published in the Journal of Public Economics:

"Place-based policies, structural change and female labor: Evidence from India’s Special Economic Zones"

By @jojoga.bsky.social, Daniel Overbeck, Nadine Riedel, Tobias Seidel

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#econsky #economics
November 27, 2024 at 4:27 PM
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Regression is a tool for making comparisons

If you don't know / can't easily explain what comparisons you're trying to make, then you don't understand the regression you're running
November 13, 2024 at 7:02 AM
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PSA: the identification assumption is not *directly* testable because you can never observe the counterfactual outcome of the treated group.
September 15, 2024 at 8:45 PM