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Use this tag to discuss empirical papers and issues arising when applying theoretical models to data. For theoretical econometric issues, use the `econometrics` tag

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How to deal with multiplicatively constant and additively constant fixed effects?

From Nick Huntington-Klein, The Effect: Fixed effects is a method of controlling for all variables, whether they’re observed or not, as long as they stay constant within some larger category. How can …
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Why does synthetic control not suffer from backdoor confounders?

From Scott Cunningham in Mixtape, on propensity score matching: propensity score matching has not seen as wide adoption among economists as in other non-experimental methods like regression discontin …
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Cross validation as a means of validating fixed effects?

To test whether it is appropriate to even use certain types of fixed effects, would it ever be appropriate to use a cross-validation methodology? Let's say that I have this type of mental model: $$\te …
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