{"id":4596,"date":"2020-05-08T12:27:20","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T16:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/?p=4596"},"modified":"2020-05-08T12:31:33","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T16:31:33","slug":"prof-shore-sheppard-recommends-this-blog-post-on-what-are-we-estimating-when-we-estimate-difference-in-differences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/content-type\/prof-shore-sheppard-recommends-this-blog-post-on-what-are-we-estimating-when-we-estimate-difference-in-differences\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Shore-Sheppard recommends this blog post on &#8220;What Are We Estimating When We Estimate Difference-in-Differences?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.worldbank.org\/impactevaluations\/what-are-we-estimating-when-we-estimate-difference-differences\" title=\"&quot;What Are We Estimating When We Estimate Difference-in-Differences?&quot;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\n\t\t&#8220;What Are We Estimating When We Estimate Difference-in-Differences?&#8221;\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/h1>\n<h2>\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.worldbank.org\/\" title=\"World Bank Blog post by Pam Jakiela\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\n\t\tWorld Bank Blog post by Pam Jakiela\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/h2>\n\t<p>In this blog post, incoming faculty Pam Jakiela brings us back to those metrics classes with a discussion of just what &#8220;difference in differences&#8221; is <em>really<\/em> doing.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve gotten a little rusty on your diff-in-diffs, want to see a different explanation, or want to think a little more carefully about just what assumptions are in play when you&#8217;re using these methods, or reading an article where someone has used these methods, this is a great read.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Prof. Shore-Sheppard for the recommendation!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.worldbank.org\/impactevaluations\/what-are-we-estimating-when-we-estimate-difference-differences\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"button\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRead the blog post\n\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/professors-picks\/\" target=\"_self\" role=\"button\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tSee other Professors&#8217; Picks\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/home\/training-research-and-resources\/research\/by-topic\/methods-and-measurement\/\" target=\"_self\" role=\"button\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tView the research page on methods and measurement\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/home\/training-research-and-resources\/research\/by-content-type\/executive-summaries-and-blogs\/\" target=\"_self\" role=\"button\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tView other blog posts\n\t\t\t<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Shore-Sheppard recommends this World Bank blog post from Pam Jakiela, an incoming member of the Williams faculty, that discusses the finer details of just what &#8220;differences in differences&#8221; means. If you&#8217;re missing your 502\/503 lectures, or just want a refresher of your econometric methods, this post provides a great description.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2197,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"tpl-full-width.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[61,60,100,544,643,89],"tags":[700,427,701],"class_list":["post-4596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-content-type","category-methods-and-measurement-browse-by-research-topic","category-new-this-just-in","category-professors-pick","category-browse-by-research-topic","tag-differences-in-differences","tag-methods-and-measurement","tag-professors-picks"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2197"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4596"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4598,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4596\/revisions\/4598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}