Topic 5: Panel Data

Material covered in class

• Some of the topics covered in this section are from Chapters 17 and 18 in the textbook, but other parts are not in the textbook.

• The material not from the textbook primarily comes from

  • Callaway, Brantly. “Difference-in-Differences for Policy Evaluation,” Handbook of Labor, Human Resources, and Population Economics, pp.1–61, 2023. [Link]

• Notes

Additional material

• This section discusses (i) traditional panel data estimation strategies, (ii) their usefulness in the context of causal effects, (iii) and alternative approaches to using panel data to learn about causal effects that are more robust to treatment effect heterogeneity.