New version of our paper (w/ @tzkli.bsky.social) on estimating pre-trends placebos in regression imputation DiD! 3 big changes!

Thrilled to share that **fect** has won the 2025 Best Statistical Software Award from the Society of Political Methodology. We're honored! polmeth.org/statistical-... To celebrate, we've just released fect v2.0.5 on CRAN & Github 🎉

Did the Biden administration's targeted industrial policies help lift the Democratic Party in "left-behind" America? Well, no, and it might've shifted the targeted areas further away from the party, at least in the case of one place-based green subsidy. New working paper 🧵 1/9

New working paper! - zikai.li and I look at the problem of assessing pre-trends using one of the "new" DiD methods - fixed effects regression imputation. tl;dr - don't use the same regression you used to impute post-treatment to also impute pre-treatment. osf.io/preprints/so... (1/14)