A beginner-friendly tutorial on the synthetic control method in R, using the Basque Country case study to estimate the economic cost of conflict on regional GDP per capita from 1970 to 1997.
Manual demeaning vs two-way fixed effects --- showing that TWFE is just OLS on demeaned data through the Frisch-Waugh-Lovell theorem, with a hands-on proof using a Barro convergence panel of 150 countries.
Dynamic panel Bayesian Model Averaging with the Bayesian Dynamic Systems Modeling (BDSM) R package, applied to cross-country economic growth determinants --- handling reverse causality through lagged dependent variables, fixed effects, and weak exogeneity.
A hands-on guide to spatial panel data modeling using the SDPDmod package in R --- from Bayesian model comparison through static and dynamic SAR/SDM estimation with Lee-Yu bias correction to direct, indirect, and total effect decomposition --- applied to cigarette demand across 46 US states (1963--1992).
A hands-on guide to the fwlplot package in R --- from understanding the Frisch-Waugh-Lovell theorem through simulated confounding to visualizing fixed effects in real panel data --- showing what "controlling for" looks like as a scatter plot.
A guide to Difference-in-Differences with staggered treatment --- from TWFE pitfalls through Callaway-Sant'Anna group-time ATTs, doubly robust estimation, and HonestDiD sensitivity analysis --- applied to minimum wage effects on teen employment.
Three principled approaches to variable selection---BMA, LASSO, and WALS---applied to synthetic cross-country CO2 emissions data with known ground truth, demonstrating methodological triangulation for robust inference.
The book provides a succinct review of the recent club convergence literature, a comparative view of developed and developing countries, and a tutorial on how to implement the club convergence framework in Stata and R.