lsu-workshop

Difference-in-Differences Workshop at LSU

These are the materials for the difference-in-differences workshop at LSU.

Part 1: Introduction to Difference-in-Differences

[Slides]

[Code]

Part 2: Relaxing Parallel trends

[Slides]

[Code]     [Honest DID Code]

Coding Exercise 1

Applying DID techniques from parts 1 and 2 to job displacement data.

[Problems]

[R Data]     [Stata dta]

[R Solutions]     [Stata Solutions] (Stata solutions were written by Kyle Butts for Mixtape Sessions)

Part 3: More Complicated Treatment Regimes

[Slides]

[Code]

Coding Exercise 2

DID with a continuous treatment using simulated hospital data.

[Problems]

[R Data]     [Stata dta]

[R Solutions]

Part 4: Alternative Identification Strategies

[Slides]

[Code]

Coding Exercise 3

Applying alternative identification strategies to job displacement data.

Problems

Data - same as Coding Exercise 1

R Solutions

Minimum Wage Data

This is the main data used during the workshop.

• Full Data: mw_data_ch2.RData   mw_data_ch2.dta

• Main subset of data used in workshop data2.RData   data2.dta

• Alternative subset of data mentioned in workshop data3.RData   data3.dta

Additional Materials

A main resource for the material from today’s workshop is my DID chapter in the Handbook of Labor, Human Resources, and Population Economics. The published (gated) version is available here. The (ungated) draft version is available here.