Overview

1. : Transparency, Clarity, Replicability, Reproducibility
   • [ Christensen and Miguel (2018, JEL)]
   • Notebook showcase: [Krueger (1999, QJE)] on Project STAR.
2. [Revision: Identification]
   • advanced reading: [ Lewbel (2019, JEL)] “The Identification Zoo - Meanings of Identification in Econometrics”

• [Selection]
  • Replication: Mroz (1987) “The Sensitivity of an Empirical Model of Married Women’s Hours of Work to Economic and Statistical Assumptions”
  • [The RAND Health Insurance Experiment].
  • useful statistical facts: [the normal distribution], [LSDV estimator]
  • Replication: Ruhm (1996, JHE) “Alcohol policies and highway vehicle fatalities”
    • [multiway FE modelling, AKM]
• [DiD]
  • [elegant DID coding]
  • Replication: [Card and Krueger (1994)] “Minimum Wages and Employment: A Case Study of the Fast-Food Industry in New Jersey and Pennsylvania”
  • Replication: [Card (1992)] “Using regional variations in wages to measure the effects of the federal minimum wage”
  • [Lissa and Liebman (1996] “Labour supply responses to the earned income tax credit” (EITC).
• [Robust Standard Errors and Clustering]
  
  • [the art of making Sandwiches in practice] with replication of Peri (2012) and Krueger (1999).
  • Replicating [Cameron et al. (2015, JHR)] “A Practitioner’s Guide to Cluster-Robust Inference”.
• If time permits: IVs
  
  • On Bartik shift-share instruments: Replicating Autor et al. (2013, AER): China syndrome and Peri (2010).

Advanced (if time permits): Sorting in the Labour Market

aka Two-way Fixed Effects Modelling (AKM)

1. Sorting in the Labour Market I: AKM
   • [AKM: Identification and coding exercises]
2. Sorting in the Labour Market II: Inequality in Germany (CHK and AKM)
3. Sorting in the Labour Market III: Introduction to Search Theory (McCall, and Diamond’s paradox)
   • : Dynamic Programming introductory slides: Backward induction (BI) and value function iterations (VFI).
   • [McCall (in Julia)] Illustrating VFI in the McCall model.
   • [Chetty (2008, R)] Illustrating BI in a modified McCall model with search effort.
4. Sorting in the Labour Market IV: Identification of PAM in Structural Search and Matching Models
   • [Shimer and Smith (2000, R)] Search and assortative matching: AKM using Shimer and Smith (2000).

Replication exercises

For replication studies, see The Replication Lab