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Visualization, Identification, and stimation in the Linear Panel Event-Study Design
Linear panel models, and the “event-study plots” that often accompany them, are popular tools for learning about policy effects. We discuss the construction of event-study plots and suggest ways to make them more informative. We examine the economic content of different possible identifying assumptions. We explore the performance of the corresponding estimators in simulations, highlighting that a given estimator can perform well or poorly depending on the economic environment. An accompanying Stata package, xtevent, facilitates adoption of our suggestions.
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xtevent: Estimation and Visualization in the Linear Panel Event-Study Design
Linear panel models and the “event-study plots” that often accompany them are popular tools for learning about policy effects. We introduce the Stata package xtevent, which enables the construction of event-study plots following the suggestions in Freyaldenhoven et al. (Forthcoming). The package implements various procedures to estimate the underlying policy effects and allows for nonbinary policy variables and estimation adjusting for pre-event trends.
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A New Jackknife Variance Estimator for Time-Series and Panel Regressions
We introduce a new jackknife variance estimator for time-series and panel-data regressions. The novelty in our approach is that we first rotate the data using a particular choice of trigonometric basis functions. This rotation removes serial correlation in a broad class of time-series processes, including random walks, and enables the use of the conventional leave-one-out jackknife on the transformed space of the regressors and residuals. The procedure is tuning-parameter free and naturally adapts to the degree of persistence of the data. We prove the asymptotic validity of our variance ...