Baker, Andrew, Brantly Callaway, Scott Cunningham, Andrew Goodman-Bacon, Pedro Sant'Anna (2025), “Difference-in-differences designs: a practitioner's guide.” arXiv preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2503.13323
Roth, Jonathan, Pedro H. C. Sant'Anna, Alyssa Bilinski, John Poe (2023), "What's Trending in Difference-in-Differences? A Synthesis of the Recent Econometrics Literature." Journal of Econometrics 235(2): 2218-2244.
Callaway, Brantly, Andrew Goodman-Bacon, and Pedro Sant’Anna (2024), “Difference-in-differences with a continuous treatment.” arXiv preprint: arXiv:2107.02637
Ghanem, Dalia, Pedro Sant'Anna, Kaspar Wuthrich (2025), "Selection and parallel trends." arXiv preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2203.09001
2、Regression Discontinuity
RD software website
Main Readings
Cattaneo, Matias D. and Titiunik, R., 2022. Regression discontinuity designs. Annual Review of Economics, 14(1), pp.821-851.
Lee, D.S. and Lemieux, T., 2010. Regression discontinuity designs in economics. Journal of Economic literature, 48(2), pp.281-355.
Application Readings
Black, Sandra E., 1999. Do better schools matter? Parental valuation of elementary education. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 114(2), pp.577-599.
McCrary, J. and Royer, H., 2011. The effect of female education on fertility and infant health: evidence from school entry policies using exact date of birth. American Economic Review, 101(1), pp.158-195.
Card, David, Chyn, E. and Giuliano, L., 2024. Can Gifted Education Help Higher-Ability Boys from Disadvantaged Backgrounds? National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper 33282.
3、Machine learning
Readings
Susan Athey and Guido Imbens (2019), Machine Learning Methods that Economists Should Know About, Annual Review of Economics, 11, 685-725.
Gareth James, Daniela Witten, Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani (2021), An Introduction to Statistical Learning with Applications in R, Second Edition. (Free download at https://www.statlearning.com/), Chapters 2.1, 2.2, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 8.1, 8.2, 10.1, 10.2 (and the rest of the book is great)
Mullainathan, Sendhil, and Jann Spiess (2017), Machine Learning: An Applied Econometric Approach, 31(Spring) Journal of Economic Perspectives 87-106.
4、Advanced Difference-in Differences
Main Readings
Baker, Andrew, Brantly Callaway, Scott Cunningham, Andrew Goodman-Bacon, Pedro Sant'Anna (2025), “Difference-in-differences designs: a practitioner's guide.” arXiv preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2503.13323
Roth, Jonathan, Pedro H. C. Sant'Anna, Alyssa Bilinski, John Poe (2023), "What's Trending in Difference-in-Differences? A Synthesis of the Recent Econometrics Literature." Journal of Econometrics 235(2): 2218-2244.
Callaway, Brantly, Andrew Goodman-Bacon, and Pedro Sant’Anna (2024), “Difference-in-differences with a continuous treatment.” arXiv preprint: arXiv:2107.02637
Ghanem, Dalia, Pedro Sant'Anna, Kaspar Wuthrich (2025), "Selection and parallel trends." arXiv preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2203.09001
5、Advanced Instrumental Variables
Core Readings
Angrist, Joshua, Peter Hull, and Christopher. Walters (2023): Methods for Measuring School Effectiveness, Handbook of the Economics of Education 7: 1-60.
Borusyak, Kirill, Peter Hull, and Xavier Jaravel (2024)): “Design-Based Identification with Formula Instruments: A Review,” Econometrics Journal, forthcoming
Angrist, Joshua, and Michal Kolesar (2024): One instrument to rule them all: The bias and coverage of just-ID IV, Journal of Econometrics, 240(2): 15398.
Angrist, Joshua and Peter Hull (2023): Instrumental variables methods reconcile intention-to-screen effects across pragmatic cancer screening trials, PNAS 120(51)
Agan, Amanda, Jennifer L. Doleac, and Anna Harvey (2023): Misdemeanor Prosecution, Quarterly Journal of Economics 138(3): 1453-1505.
Borusyak, Kirill, Peter Hull, and Xavier Jaravel (2022): Quasi-Experimental Shift-Share Research Designs, Review of Economic Studies 89
Goldsmith-Pinkham, Paul, Isaac Sorkin, and Henry Swift (2020): Bartik Instruments: What, When, Why, and How, American Economic Review, 110(8): 2586-2624.
Borusyak, Kirill ,and Peter Hull (2023): Non-Random Exposure to Exogenous Shocks, Econometrica, 91(6): 2155-2185
Borusyak, Kirill, Peter Hull, and Xavier Jaravel (2024): Negative Weights are No Concern in Design-Based Specifications, AEA Papers and Proceedings, 114: 597-600
