Zimao Xiao
@zimaoxiao.bsky.social
PhD student in Env Econ at the LSE
https://sites.google.com/view/zimaoxiao
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For a fun GIS project I mapped the highest transit mode share census tract in every state to examine transit dependent neighborhoods across the country, particularly in less urban states. The national peak tract map is below with individual maps in this thread from highest to lowest.
November 20, 2025 at 8:51 PM
For a fun GIS project I mapped the highest transit mode share census tract in every state to examine transit dependent neighborhoods across the country, particularly in less urban states. The national peak tract map is below with individual maps in this thread from highest to lowest.
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I'll be leading a Shift-Share Mixtape workshop on July 29th & 30th
Sign up here! www.eventbrite.com/e/shift-shar...
Sign up here! www.eventbrite.com/e/shift-shar...
June 2, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I'll be leading a Shift-Share Mixtape workshop on July 29th & 30th
Sign up here! www.eventbrite.com/e/shift-shar...
Sign up here! www.eventbrite.com/e/shift-shar...
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Happy to share videos of 12-hour course on DIDs I taught at @liser.lu in Luxemburg. Covers in depth the first 7 chapters of our textbook, and last chapter more quickly. Use it to teach yourself (for free!) recent developments on DID! Thanks @andreaecon.bsky.social for class and videos!
🎥 The recording of the Difference-in-Differences course by Prof. @cdechaisemartin.bsky.social , which I had the pleasure of organizing at @liser.lu , is now online!
📚 12 hours covering everything from the basics to advanced methods.
👉 Watch the course here: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... #EconSky
📚 12 hours covering everything from the basics to advanced methods.
👉 Watch the course here: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... #EconSky
Difference-in-Differences (DiD) | Training with Prof. Clément de Chaisemartin - YouTube
Join Prof. Clément de Chaisemartin in this in-depth training on Difference-in-Differences (DiD) — a powerful econometric tool for causal inference and policy...
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May 9, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Happy to share videos of 12-hour course on DIDs I taught at @liser.lu in Luxemburg. Covers in depth the first 7 chapters of our textbook, and last chapter more quickly. Use it to teach yourself (for free!) recent developments on DID! Thanks @andreaecon.bsky.social for class and videos!
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Just a reminder that @gmcd.bsky.social and @kylefbutts.bsky.social have made an incredible public good describing how to use data.table and fixest to encourage moving from Stata to R!
stata2r.github.io
stata2r.github.io
Translating Stata to R
Learning R coming from Stata
stata2r.github.io
December 4, 2024 at 12:14 AM
Just a reminder that @gmcd.bsky.social and @kylefbutts.bsky.social have made an incredible public good describing how to use data.table and fixest to encourage moving from Stata to R!
stata2r.github.io
stata2r.github.io
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Just published in the Journal of Public Economics:
"Place-based policies, structural change and female labor: Evidence from India’s Special Economic Zones"
By @jojoga.bsky.social, Daniel Overbeck, Nadine Riedel, Tobias Seidel
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#econsky #economics
"Place-based policies, structural change and female labor: Evidence from India’s Special Economic Zones"
By @jojoga.bsky.social, Daniel Overbeck, Nadine Riedel, Tobias Seidel
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#econsky #economics
November 27, 2024 at 4:27 PM
Just published in the Journal of Public Economics:
"Place-based policies, structural change and female labor: Evidence from India’s Special Economic Zones"
By @jojoga.bsky.social, Daniel Overbeck, Nadine Riedel, Tobias Seidel
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#econsky #economics
"Place-based policies, structural change and female labor: Evidence from India’s Special Economic Zones"
By @jojoga.bsky.social, Daniel Overbeck, Nadine Riedel, Tobias Seidel
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#econsky #economics
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Regression is a tool for making comparisons
If you don't know / can't easily explain what comparisons you're trying to make, then you don't understand the regression you're running
If you don't know / can't easily explain what comparisons you're trying to make, then you don't understand the regression you're running
November 13, 2024 at 7:02 AM
Regression is a tool for making comparisons
If you don't know / can't easily explain what comparisons you're trying to make, then you don't understand the regression you're running
If you don't know / can't easily explain what comparisons you're trying to make, then you don't understand the regression you're running
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PSA: the identification assumption is not *directly* testable because you can never observe the counterfactual outcome of the treated group.
September 15, 2024 at 8:45 PM
PSA: the identification assumption is not *directly* testable because you can never observe the counterfactual outcome of the treated group.