Tag: Economic Integration

xtswitchdid and did_multiplegt_dyn: Same Same, but Different

Changing software should not change the economic question. Yet two implementations of the same difference-in-differences framework can produce different-looking estimates because their defaults refer to different causal parameters.…

How to trace the growth effects of isolated treaty signatures in Stata

When countries sign several trade agreements in quick succession, a standard event-study can become hard to interpret. A coefficient estimated 2 years after one signature may already reflect…