Readings

  1. Navigating Potential Pitfalls in Difference-in-Differences Designs
    American Political Science Review, Forthcoming.
    Hans J. G. Hassell, and John B. Holbein

  2. What Are We Estimating When We Estimate Difference-in-Differences?
    World Bank Blogs
    Pamela Jakiela

  3. Difference-in-Differences Methodology
    Blog post
    Andrew C. Baker
    This blog post is a brief summary of Andrew Goodman-Bacon’s (2021) seminal article on the topic, and the author of the blog post’s own paper about staggered difference-in-differences designs

In-class exercise

  1. Laboratories of Democratic Backsliding
    American Political Science Review, 2023.
    Jacob M. Grumbach

R code for exercise: Staggered_DD_Exercise.R

Data for exercise: Grumbach_2023.csv